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Is there a balance to be struck between simple hierarchical models and

Dumb statistical models, always making people look bad

Buy your Tesla at closing time: For 15 years stocks shooting up overnight

An election forecast that’s 50-50 is not “giving up”

A Post Mortem on the Gino Case

How can a top scientist be so confidently wrong? R. A. Fisher and smoking (2022)

Those correction notices, in full

Bad science as genre fiction

Critique of Freakonomics interview with psychologist Ellen Langer

Defining Statistical Models in Jax?

Andrew Gelman: Is marriage associated with happiness for men or for women?

The River, the Village, and the Fort: Nate Silver's New Book, "On the Edge"

Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election

Bayesian Statistics: The three cultures

Statistics Blunder at the Supreme Court

Well-known paradox of R-squared is still buggin me

How often is the wife taller than the husband?

How to think about the effect of the economy on political attitudes / behavior?

Randomization in such studies is arguably a negative in practice

Refuted papers continue to be cited more than their failed replications

Relating t-statistics and the relative width of confidence intervals

The Dean of Engineering at UofNevada wrote a paper so bad, you can't believe it

Pinker was right, I was wrong

Bad stuff going down at the American Sociological Association

The immediate victims of a con would rather act as if the con never happened

Clarke's Law, and who's to blame for bad science reporting

Bayesians moving from defense to offense

Russell's Paradox of ghostwriters

Dorothy Bishop on the prevalence of scientific fraud

I disagree with Geoff Hinton regarding "glorified autocomplete"

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