Reading the referee reports of that retracted paper by the science reformers: A peek behind the curtain
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2025-01-26
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No, this paper on strip clubs and sex crimes was never gonna get retracted. Also, a reminder of the importance of data quality, and a reflection on why researchers often think it’s just fine to publish papers using bad data under the mistaken belief that these analyses are “conservative” or “attenuated” or something like that.
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/05/2023
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If the Nobel Prize winners and the bigshots at the National Cancer Institute are doing hype on the daily, then it makes sense that the loser wannabe bigshots at the Cleveland Clinic and the Scripps Translational Science Institute will imitate that behavior.
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 06/29/2023
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This empirical paper has been cited 1616 times but I don’t find it convincing. There’s no single fatal flaw, but the evidence does not seem so clear. How to think about this sort of thing? What to do? First, accept that evidence might not all go in one direction. Second, make lots of graphs. Also, an amusing story about how this paper is getting cited nowadays.
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/12/13/chal/
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 12/13/2023