On deck this month

Here goes:

Quick tips on giving research presentations

How to read (in quantitative social science). And by implication, how to write.

If observational studies are outlawed, then only outlaws will do observational studies

Designing a study to see if “the 10x programmer” is a real thing

The persistence of the “schools are failing” story line

Plaig: it’s not about the copying, it’s about the lack of attribution

Subtleties with measurement-error models for the evaluation of wacky claims

Steven Pinker on writing: Where I agree and where I disagree

Buggy-whip update

The inclination to deny all variation

The Fallacy of Placing Confidence in Confidence Intervals

Saying things that are out of place

Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t . . . We’re brothers of the same mind, unblind

I like the clever way they tell the story. It’s a straightforward series of graphs but the reader has to figure out where to click and what to do, which makes the experience feel more like a voyage of discovery.

“Now the company appears to have screwed up badly, and they’ve done it in pretty much exactly the way you would expect a company to screw up when it doesn’t drill down into the data.”

Sorry, but I’m with Richard Ford on this one

I’d like to see a preregistered replication on this one

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

Defense by escalation

Sokal: “science is not merely a bag of clever tricks . . . Rather, the natural sciences are nothing more or less than one particular application — albeit an unusually successful one — of a more general rationalist worldview”

It’s Too Hard to Publish Criticisms and Obtain Data for Replication

Research benefits of feminism

Using statistics to make the world a better place?

Trajectories of Achievement Within Race/Ethnicity: “Catching Up” in Achievement Across Time

Common sense and statistics

I’m sure that my anti-Polya attitude is completely unfair

The anti-Woodstein

Sometimes you’re so subtle they don’t get the joke

Statistical methods as pocket tools

It’s not just the confidence and drive to act. It’s having engraved inner criteria to guide action.

Your closest collaborator . . . and why you can’t talk with her

And . . . happy new year!

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