From cooking and learning and teaching, to replication and academics wearing Che T-shirts
7 more days, 7 more posts
Mon 22 Jan 2024: “My view is that if I can show that a result was cooked and that doing it correctly does not yield the answer the authors claimed, then the result is discredited. . . . What I hear, instead, is the following . . .”
Tues 23 Jan: Learning from mistakes (my online talk for the American Statistical Association, 2:30pm Tues 30 Jan 2024)
Wed 24 Jan: Resources for teaching and learning survey sampling, from Scott Keeter at Pew Research
Thurs 25 Jan: Mister P and Stan go to Bangladesh . . .
Fri 26 Jan: The importance of measurement, and how you can draw ridiculous conclusions from your statistical analyses if you don’t think carefully about measurement . . . Leamer (1983) got it.
Sat 27 Jan: The paradox of replication studies: A good analyst has special data analysis and interpretation skills. But then then it’s considered a bad or surprising thing that if you give the same data to different analysts, they come to different conclusions.
Sun 28 Jan: Sympathy for the Nudgelords: Vermeule endorsing stupid and dangerous election-fraud claims and Levitt promoting climate change denial are like cool dudes in the 60s wearing Che T-shirts and thinking Chairman Mao was cool—we think they’re playing with fire, they think they’re cute contrarians pointing out contradictions in the system. For a certain kind of person, it’s fun to be a rogue.
And here were last week’s posts:
21 Jan: Michael Wiebe has several new replications written up on his site.
20 Jan: Regarding the use of “common sense” when evaluating research claims
19 Jan: Progress in 2023, Charles edition
19 Jan: The free will to repost
18 Jan: Postdoc at Washington State University on law-enforcement statistics
18 Jan: Storytelling and Scientific Understanding (my talks with Thomas Basbøll at Johns Hopkins on 26 Apr)
18 Jan: Progress in 2023, Aki’s software edition
17 Jan: Bad stuff going down at the American Sociological Association
16 Jan: Progress in 2023, Jessica Edition
16 Jan: This post is not really about Aristotle.
15 Jan: Progress in 2023, Aki Edition
15 Jan: A feedback loop can destroy correlation: This idea comes up in many places.