Watership Down, thick description, applied statistics, immutability of stories, and playing tennis with a net

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2013-03-15

Summary:

For the past several months I’ve been circling around and around some questions related to the issue of how we build trust in statistical methods and statistical results. There are lots of examples but let me start with my own career. My most cited publications are my books and my methods papers, but I think [...]

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http://andrewgelman.com/2013/03/05/watership-down-thick-description-applied-statistics-immutability-of-stories-and-playing-tennis-with-a-net/

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Authors:

Andrew

Date tagged:

03/15/2013, 12:48

Date published:

03/05/2013, 09:15