The spread of misinformation: A pattern we see over and over

Open AI gets GPT-3 to work by hiring an army of humans to fix GPT’s bad answers

Auto Accidents and “Isolation and Disruption”

The claimed effect size is about a zillion times higher than is plausible

Hierarchical Model of Golf Putting

How many African American patents were there in the Golden Age of Innovation?

Chatbots: Still Dumb After All These Years

Noted study in psychology fails to replicate, crumbles with evidence of fraud

Climate Change as a Biological Accelerator

“Using Benford’s Law to Detect Bitcoin Manipulation”

If you think Psychological Science is bad, imagine how bad it was in 1999

“AI-promised-to-revolutionize-radiology-but-so-far-its-failing”

Feeling like a pariah (even when you’re not)

Thinking fast, slow, and not at all

Causal Inference: The Mixtape

EU proposing to regulate the use of Bayesian estimation

Is Explainability the New Uncertainty?

Who are the culture heroes of today?

“A Headline That Will Make Global-Warming Activists Apoplectic”

Reflections on a Talk Gone Wrong

Three Unblinded Mice

The NeurIPS 2020 broader impacts experiment

How to Think about Correlation?

The likelihood principle in model check and model evaluation

The rise of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in international development

Don’t kid yourself. The polls messed up

A new hot hand paradox

Andrew Gell-Mann finds issues with the FiveThirtyEight model

Body Language and Machine Learning

The view that the scientific process is “red tape"

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