It’s the eternal question . . . what do you want, if given these three options: (a) 54 Jamaican beef patties (b) 1/216 of a conference featuring a collection of washed-up business executives, academics, politicians, and hangers-on (c) A soggy burger, sad-looking fries, and a quart of airport whisky. The ideal would be to put it all together: 54...

Emily Tanner-Smith writes: Remote/Hybrid Postdoc Opportunity—join us as a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the HEDCO Institute for Evidence-Based Educational Practice in the College of Education at the University of Oregon! The HEDCO Institute specializes in the conduct of evidence syntheses that meet the immediate decision-making demands of local, state,...

Substack. Twitter. Bluesky. Mastodon. RSS. The blog itself. Also, our old posts are spooling at StatRetro every three hours starting with our very first post from 2004. The blog’s in all these places because people told me they were having difficulty staying informed about the new posts. So, lots of places for you to find these.

After writing this post, I was thinking that my superpower as a researcher is my willingness to admit I’m wrong, which gives me many opportunities to learn and do better (see for example here or here). My other superpower is my capacity to be upset, which has often led me to think deeper about statistical questions (for example here). That’s all fine,...

Fri 26 Apr, 10am in Shriver Hall Boardroom and 2pm in Hodson Hall 213 (see also here): Storytelling and Scientific Understanding Andrew Gelman and Thomas Basbøll Storytelling is central to science, not just as a tool for broadcasting scientific findings to the outside world, but also as a way that we as scientists understand and evaluate theories....

Sean Manning points to this remark from Matthew “not the musician” White: I [White] am sometimes embarrassed by where I have been forced to find my statistics … Often, the only place to find numbers is in a newspaper article, almanac, chronicle or encyclopedia which needs to summarize major events into a few short sentences or into one scary number,...