Category: Academia
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A Sharp Rise in Retractions Prompts Calls for Reform
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Here is a view of the Capitol from just outside of ENAR. OBEY. And finally, for @CM_Litchfield, a picture of the Teamester’s headquarters. Cheers.
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An interesting debate between Andrew Gelman (and Kaiser Fung) and the Freakonomics authors, Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt. Freakonomics was published. Gelman and Fung write: Freakonomics: What Went Wrong? Freakonomics Responds. Gelman gets “meta” It also appears that a good way to get mentioned on the Freakonomics blog is to accuse them of plagiarism (a very…
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Nan Laird is speaking at Smith College today at 5pm. You should probably go to this. Finding Genetic Markers for Disease: Some Challenges and Opportunities for Biostatisticians, Thursday, March 15, 5 p.m., McConnell B15 Nan Laird, Professor of Public Health and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health. In the relatively short time span of less…
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An interesting post from BioPhysEngr Blog: EigenBracket 2012: Using Graph Theory to Predict NCAA March Madness Basketball Cheers.
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I don’t really know what to say about this. It appears to be a band comprised of statistics graduate students at North Carolina State who sing about statistics to the tune of popular songs. I’m really, truly speechless. Here are the lyrics: The Fifth Moment’s performance at the 2012 International Dinner! We are the original…
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The title of this post is supposed to be HaRRy PotteR, but unfortunately the blog style capitalizes all of the letters A very brief introduction to R….in terms of harry potter. Cheers.
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An interesting article by Charles Stangor: “Rethinking my Science” And a quote from it: First is the paper by Henrich, Heine, and Norenzayan (2010) on the use of WEIRD samples. These authors argue that our usual college student samples (White, Educated, Intelligent, Rich, and Democratic) are just terrible – that we cannot expect them to generalize very…
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I’ve been reading a lot about the boycott against Elsevier lately, and today I came across this article from slate.com called “The other academic freedom movement”. As I’ve moved along through graduate school and published a few articles, I’m a little bit surprised at some of the strange forces at work in the whole peer-review process.…
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Below is the opening paragraph of the article Mindless Statistics by Gerd Gigerenzer (The bold was added by me): I once visited a distinguished statistical textbook author, whose book went through many editions, and whose name does not matter. His textbook represents the relative best in the social sciences. He was not a statistician; otherwise, his text would likely…
Stats in the Wild 