As discussed last month, for the next two months we’ll be interspersing regular blog posts with seminar-speaker-bracket showdowns.
So we’ll be having a double dose of posts. Don’t forget to comment on the seminar showdowns!
And here goes:
Deciding the ultimate seminar speaker: The rules
Plato (1) vs. Henny Youngman
The plagiarist next door
Mark Twain (4) vs. L. Ron Hubbard
Why I keep talking about “generalizing from sample to population”
James Joyce (3) vs. Mary Baker Eddy
Statistical analysis recapitulates the development of statistical methods
Mohammad (2) vs. Ed McMahon
How a clever analysis of health survey data became transformed into bogus feel-good medical advice
Miguel de Cervantes (2) vs. Joan Crawford
Sorry, but I’m with Richard Ford on this one
Henry David Thoreau (3) vs. Charles Manson
Discussion with Steven Pinker connecting cognitive psychology research to the difficulties of writing
Marcel Duchamp (4) vs. Thomas Kinkade
In search of the elusive loop of plagiarism
Albert Camus (1) vs. Bruno Latour
When the evidence is unclear
Leonardo da Vinci (1) vs. The guy who did Piss Christ
Two Unrecognized Hall Of Fame Shortstops
Claude Levi-Strauss (4) vs. Raymond Aron
Two Unrecognized Hall Of Fame Statisticians
Ed Wood (3) vs. Phyllis Schlafly
What’s the most important thing in statistics that’s not in the textbooks?
Alan Turing (2) vs. Yoko Ono
“Peer assessment enhances student learning”
Simone de Beauvoir (2) vs. Raymond Carver
James Watson sez: Cancer cure is coming in minus 14 years!
Chris Rock (3) vs. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Bayesian survival analysis with horseshoe priors—in Stan!
Larry David (4) vs. Thomas Hobbes
VB-Stan: Black-box black-box variational Bayes
Jesus (1) vs. Leo Tolstoy
Another example of why centering predictors can be good idea
Mohandas Gandhi (1) vs. Stanley Kubrick
Statistical Significance – Significant Problem?
Mother Teresa (4) vs. Sun Myung Moon
Bayes and doomsday
Vincent van Gogh (3) vs. Grandma Moses
“Academics should be made accountable for exaggerations in press releases about their own work”
Philip K. Dick (2) vs. Jean Baudrillard
“When more data steer us wrong: replications with the wrong dependent measure perpetuate erroneous conclusions”
Martin Luther King (2) vs. Sigmund Freud
“A small but growing collection of studies suggest X” . . . huh?
Aristotle (3) vs. Stewart Lee
The axes are labeled but I don’t know what the dots represent.
Abraham (4) vs. Jane Austen
In criticism of criticism of criticism
Richard Pryor (1) vs. Karl Popper
“The harm done by tests of significance” (article from 1994 in the journal, “Accident Analysis and Prevention”)
William Shakespeare (1) vs. Karl Marx
Forget about pdf: this looks much better, it makes all my own papers look like kids’ crayon drawings by comparison
Friedrich Nietzsche (4) vs. Alan Bennett
Time-release pedagogy??
Buddha (3) vs. John Updike