On deck this month

Lots of good stuff in the queue:

“Regular Customer: It was so much easier when I was a bum. I didn’t have to wake up at 4am to go to work, didn’t have all these bills and girlfriends.”

Rational != Self-interested

When there’s a lot of variation, it can be a mistake to make statements about “typical” attitudes

“Science does not advance by guessing”

When am I a conservative and when am I a liberal (when it comes to statistics, that is)?

Science tells us that fast food lovers are more likely to marry other fast food lovers

10th anniversary of “Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science”

In one of life’s horrible ironies, I wrote a paper “Why we (usually) don’t have to worry about multiple comparisons” but now I spend lots of time worrying about multiple comparisons

The Fault in Our Stars: It’s even worse than they say

Buggy-whip update

The inclination to deny all variation

Hoe noem je?

“Your Paper Makes SSRN Top Ten List”

The Fallacy of Placing Confidence in Confidence Intervals

Try a spaghetti plot

I ain’t got no watch and you keep asking me what time it is

Some questions from our Ph.D. statistics qualifying exam

Solution to the helicopter design problem

Solution to the problem on the distribution of p-values

Solution to the sample-allocation problem

A key part of statistical thinking is to use additive rather than Boolean models

Yes, I’ll help people for free but not like this!

I love it when I can respond to a question with a single link

Boo! Who’s afraid of availability bias?

That last one is a special Halloween-themed post. I hope you enjoy it.

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