Showing posts with label Andrew Gelman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andrew Gelman. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

General versus particular cases

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Andrew Gelman did a very interesting article in Slate on how being overly reliant on statistical significance can lead to spurious findings...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

More reflections on a study (EDITED)

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Okay, before I get to the meat of this post, this quote by Andrew Gelman is dynamite: . . . I’m generally suspicious of arguments in whi...
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Friday, October 26, 2012

When you start a sentence with "one good indicator of a person who’s not so smart," you should be extra careful about what you say next

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Andrew Gelman spends some time  on this latest quote from Steven Levitt on the rationality of voting: DUBNER: So Levitt, how can you in yo...
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Why Observational Epidmeiology is frustrating

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Andrew Gelman has a post up on the history of cigarette smoking research , based on a book he was reading a while back.  It's pretty int...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Dual Class shares and free markets

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Andrew Gelman weighs in on dual class shares :  Now I’m just confused here. Who’s supposed to be “concerned” here? As a New Yorker subs...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Freakonomics

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Andrew Gelman's blog has a nice discussion of Freakonomics that is very topical given the discussion of Mike Daisy.  I think that he was...
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Monday, December 19, 2011

Can we do observational medical research?

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Andrew Gelman has a really nice post on observational medical research.  How could I not respond? In the post he quotes David Madigan wh...
Friday, December 2, 2011

Economics and Morality

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I have noticed a rather poisonous idea that is starting to get noticed -- the link between moral virtue and economic success. Consider thes...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

Type M Bias

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From the pages of Andrew Gelman : And classical multiple comparisons procedures—which select at an even higher threshold—make the type M pro...
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Friday, August 12, 2011

Stop by and see what you think

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Andrew Gelman has some intriguing news about the possibility of reform in the institutional review board system.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Popular Micro-economics

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Andrew Gelman writes: Pop economists (or, at least, pop micro-economists) are often making one of two arguments: 1. People are rational and...
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Friday, June 3, 2011

One more thought

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Mark , Andrew Gelman and I have all weighed on on the article written by David Rubinstein. So I think the high points have been hit. One...
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Thursday, June 2, 2011

University Professor Compensation

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Andrew Gelman links to college professor David Rubinstein who makes a number of inflammatory comments under a headline that includes "...
Saturday, May 28, 2011

Consistency

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I was looking at Andrew Gelman's blog and saw his discussion of Ray Fisman's piece on compensation . I was especially struck by th...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Unemployment Forecasting

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There was a nice discussion of the plausibility of the employment figures in the new Paul Ryan 2012 budget proposal for the United States by...
Sunday, February 6, 2011

Education and Poverty

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One of the most difficult things in looking at education is that it is very hard to establish causal directions. Are bad teachers creating ...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

Mini-colloquium: Homework

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One of the cool things about about Andrew Gelman's blog is the quality of discussions you'll see in his comment section. The observ...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Educational Lotteries

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Hoisted from the comments on Andrew Gelman's web site, Steve Sailor claims: In my one experience with a charter school lottery, the ch...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Note to Gelman -- first fill its mouth with salt, then light candles, then decapitate

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Andrew Gelman is once again going after the voting-is-irrational zombie (disinterred this time by the Freakonomics team). Gelman shows, us...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Andrew Gelman on the methodological attribution problem

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Andrew Gelman has a post in which he brings up the following insight: This sort of thing comes up a lot, and in my recent discussion of Efr...
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