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Shreddergate! A fascinating investigation into possible dishonesty in a psychology experiment

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/15/shreddergate-a-fascinating-investigation-into-possible-dishonesty-in-a-psychology-experiment/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/15/2024

zombies
Freakonomics asks, “Why is there so much fraud in academia,” but without addressing one big incentive for fraud, which is that, if you make grabby enough claims, you can get featured in . . . Freakonomics!

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/14/freakonomics-asks-why-is-there-so-much-fraud-in-academia-but-without-addressing-one-big-incentive-for-fraud-which-is-that-if-you-make-grabby-enough-claims-you-can-get-features-in-freako/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/14/2024

economics
Supercentenarian superfraud update

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/13/supercentenarian-superfraud-update/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/13/2024

miscellaneous
Movements in the prediction markets, and going beyond a black-box view of markets and prediction models

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/13/movements-in-the-prediction-markets-and-going-beyond-a-black-box-view-of-markets-and-prediction-models/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/13/2024

analysis
It’s Stanford time, baby: 8-hour time-restricted press releases linked to a 91% higher risk of hype

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/12/its-stanford-time-baby-8-hour-time-restricted-press-releases-linked-to-a-91-higher-risk-of-hype/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/12/2024

health
B-school prof data sleuth lawsuit fails

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/12/b-school-prof-data-sleuth-lawsuit-fails/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/12/2024

miscellaneous
Decisions of parties to run moderate or extreme candidates

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/11/decisions-of-democrats-to-run-moderate-or-extreme-candidates/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/11/2024

political
Awesome online graph guessing game. And scatterplot charades.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/10/awesome-online-graph-guessing-game-and-scatterplot-charades/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/10/2024

graphics
Bayesian social science conference in Amsterdam! Next month!

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/09/bayesian-social-science-conference-in-amsterdam-next-month/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/09/2024

bayesian
The mainstream press is failing America (UK edition)

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/09/the-mainstream-press-is-failing-america-uk-edition/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/09/2024

political
Modeling Weights to Generalize (my talk this Wed noon at the Columbia University statistics department)

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/09/modeling-weights-to-generalize-my-talk-this-wed-noon-at-the-columbia-university-statistics-department/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/09/2024

bayesian
Here’s a useful response by Christakis to criticisms of the contagion-of-obesity claims

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/08/heres-a-useful-response-by-christakis-to-criticisms-of-the-contagion-of-obesity-claims/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/08/2024

health
Sports gambling addiction epidemic fueled by some combination of psychology, economics, and politics

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/08/sports-gambling-addiction-epidemic-fueled-by-some-combination-of-psychology-economics-and-politics/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/08/2024

economics
Evil scamming fake publishers

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/07/evil-scamming-fake-publishers/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/07/2024

zombies
Remember that paper that reported contagion of obesity? How’s it being cited nowadays?

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/07/christakis-fowler-update-update/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/07/2024

zombies sociology public health
“Very interesting failed attempt at manipulation on Polymarket today”

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/06/very-interesting-failed-attempt-at-manipulation-on-polymarket-today/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/06/2024

economics
If you want to play women’s tennis at the top level, there’s a huge benefit to being ____. Not just ____, but exceptionally ___, outlier-outlier ___. (And what we can learn about social science from this stylized fact.)

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/06/meritocracy-and-womens-tennis/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/06/2024

economics
The NYT sinks to a new low in political coverage

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/05/the-nyt-sinks-to-a-new-low-in-political-coverage/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/05/2024

miscellaneous
In search of a theory associating honest citation with a higher/deeper level of understanding than (dishonest) plagiarism

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/05/in-search-of-a-theory-associating-honest-citation-with-a-higher-deeper-level-of-understanding-than-dishonest-plagiarism/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/05/2024

political
Should you always include a varying slope for the lower-level variable involved in a cross-level interaction?

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/04/should-you-always-include-a-varying-slope-for-the-lower-level-variable-involved-in-a-cross-level-interaction/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/04/2024

modeling
Feedback on the blog—this is your chance!

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/03/feedback-on-the-blog-this-is-your-chance/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/03/2024

analysis
Chutzpah is their superpower (Dominic Sandbrook edition)

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/02/chutzpah-is-their-superpower/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/02/2024

literature
“My basic question is do we really need data to be analysed by both methods?”

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/01/my-basic-question-is-do-we-really-need-data-to-be-analysed-by-both-methods/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 09/01/2024

bayesian
log(A + x), not log(1 + x)

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/08/31/loga-x-not-log1-x/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 08/31/2024

miscellaneous
“The Waltz of Reason” and a paradox of book reviewing

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/08/31/the-waltz-of-reason-and-a-paradox-of-book-reviewing/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 08/31/2024

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