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This one’s for the blimp

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/09/this-ones-for-the-blimp/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 01/09/2026

art
8 arguments against polling (some are good arguments, some are bad)

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/09/8-arguments-against-polling-some-are-good-arguments-some-are-bad/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 01/09/2026

political
The soft bigotry of low expectations

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/08/the-soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 01/08/2026

political
What is “workflow” and why is it important?

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/08/what-is-workflow-and-why-is-it-important/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 01/08/2026

bayesian
It’s open season on the unabashedly earnest

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/07/its-open-season-on-the-unabashedly-earnest/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 01/07/2026

art
Uh oh prediction markets

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/07/uh-oh-prediction-markets/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 01/07/2026

analysis
Survey Statistics: 4th helpings of the logit shift

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/06/survey-statistics-4th-helpings-of-the-logit-shift/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 01/06/2026

miscellaneous
The stories behind our published research from last year

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/06/the-stories-behind-our-published-research-from-last-year/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 01/06/2026

analysis
Last post on the estimated effects of Mississippi school reforms

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/05/last-post-on-the-estimated-effects-of-mississippi-school-reforms/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 01/05/2026

causal
When in doubt (in teaching and in research) do a simulation on the computer.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/04/when-in-doubt-in-teaching-and-in-research-do-a-simulation-on-the-computer/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 01/04/2026

computing
The combination of originality, ambition, and lack of scruple can take you far in social science.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/03/the-combination-of-originality-ambition-and-lack-of-scruple-can-take-you-far-in-social-science/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 01/03/2026

miscellaneous
Barnard College president promotes free expression, does not comment on recent anti-free-expression policies at the college

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/02/barnard-college-president-promotes-free-expression-does-not-comment-on-recent-anti-free-expression-policies-at-the-college/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 01/02/2026

political
Pinning the group-level variance parameters to speed computation for hierarchical models

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/01/pinning-the-group-level-variance-parameters-to-speed-computation-for-hierarchical-models/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 01/01/2026

bayesian
What we can remember (the vagaries of literary fame)

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/31/what-we-can-remember-the-vagaries-of-literary-fame/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 12/31/2025

literature
I have a horrible feeling sometimes that heavily promoted crap research on space aliens, cold showers, mind-body healing, schoolyard evolutionary psychology, extra-sensory perception, magic golf balls, air rage, himmicanes, subliminal smiley faces, etc etc etc, has softened the ground so that the seeds of more evil trees could then be planted and take root.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/31/h/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 12/31/2025

health
Survey Statistics: more adventures in mismeasured X

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/30/survey-statistics-more-adventures-in-mismeasured-x/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 12/30/2025

miscellaneous
A funny mismatch between the level of the course and what the instructor is doing on the blackboard

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/30/a-funny-mismatch-between-the-level-of-the-course-and-what-the-instructor-is-doing-on-the-blackboard/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 12/30/2025

teaching
How the covid vaccine almost killed me

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/29/how-the-covid-vaccine-almost-killed-me/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 12/29/2025

analysis
Looking at the Port Huron Statement, 63 years later

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/28/looking-at-the-port-huron-statement-63-years-later/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 12/28/2025

economics
“No one could suspect that times were coming . . . when the man who did not gamble would lose all the time, even more surely than he who gambled.”

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/27/no-one-could-suspect-that-times-were-coming-when-the-man-who-did-not-gamble-would-lose-all-the-time-even-more-surely-than-he-who-gambled/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 12/27/2025

economics
How much of an NBA team’s won-loss record is from skill and how much is luck?

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/26/how-much-of-an-nba-teams-won-loss-record-is-from-skill-and-how-much-is-luck/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 12/26/2025

bayesian
If only Lee Bollinger

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/25/if-only-lee-bollinger/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 12/25/2025

political
Slop is not distinguishable by its attributes. It is an attitude of production

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/24/slop-is-not-distinguishable-by-its-attributes-it-is-an-attitude-of-production/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 12/24/2025

art
Holiday open thread: Correct me! Point out all my mistakes.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/24/holiday-open-thread-correct-me-point-out-all-my-mistakes/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 12/24/2025

miscellaneous
Survey Statistics: is a mismeasured X better than none at all ?

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/23/survey-statistics-is-a-mismeasured-x-better-than-none-at-all/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 12/23/2025

miscellaneous

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