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A consensus–but it’s a consensus of uncertainty.
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A consensus–but it’s a consensus of uncertainty. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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February 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Everything I ever needed to know in life I learned from the men in the Epstein files
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Everything I ever needed to know in life I learned from the men in the Epstein files | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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February 9, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Review of string theory book from 2004 brings up interesting questions regarding age-period-cohort effects in the sociology of science
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Review of string theory book from 2004 brings up interesting questions regarding age-period-cohort effects in the sociology of science | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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February 8, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Hey, here’s $100,000 down the drain!
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Hey, here’s $100,000 down the drain! | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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February 7, 2026 at 2:53 PM
The anti-Bayesian is standing at the back window with a shotgun, scanning for priors coming over the hill, while a million assumptions just walk in through the front door. (also, an interesting point by Yann LeCun in 2012 about human language)
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The anti-Bayesian is standing at the back window with a shotgun, scanning for priors coming over the hill, while a million assumptions just walk right into his house through the front door. (also, a...
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February 6, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Sunstein on Kissinger: No opinion on the whole war criminal thing, but the generosity that he showed when talking about Star Wars [the movie, not the weapons program] was “incomparable”
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Sunstein on Kissinger: No opinion on the whole war criminal thing, but the generosity that he showed when talking about Star Wars [the movie, not the weapons program] was “incomparable” | Statistica...
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February 5, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Softly, effectively, in the age of genAI
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Softly, effectively, in the age of genAI | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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February 5, 2026 at 1:43 AM
“Statistics is widely understood to provide a body of techniques for ‘modeling data.'”
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“Statistics is widely understood to provide a body of techniques for ‘modeling data.’” | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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February 4, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Survey Statistics: 5 flavors of calibration
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Survey Statistics: 5 flavors of calibration | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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February 3, 2026 at 9:49 PM
“Parallelizing MCMC Across the Sequence Length”: This one is really cool.
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“Parallelizing MCMC Across the Sequence Length”: This one is really cool. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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February 3, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Postdoc in Milan on scalability for high-dimensional Bayesian learning
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Postdoc in Milan on scalability for high-dimensional Bayesian learning | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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February 2, 2026 at 10:35 PM
A counterintuitive example where a strong prior pulls an estimate in the wrong direction–and how to see the problem
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A counterintuitive example where a strong prior pulls an estimate in the wrong direction–and how to see the problem | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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February 2, 2026 at 2:20 PM
For God’s sake, don’t donate to the “International Peace Institute”! (unless you want to pay for corrupt assholes to fly first class around the world to give speeches about how everyone needs to tighten their belts)
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For God’s sake, don’t donate to the “International Peace Institute”! (unless you want to pay for corrupt assholes to fly first class around the world to give speeches about how everyone needs to tig...
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February 1, 2026 at 2:20 PM
From the Mixed-Up Files of Jeffrey E. Epstein
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Jeffrey E. Epstein | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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February 1, 2026 at 2:08 AM
The pantheon of celebrity billionaires
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The pantheon of celebrity billionaires | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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January 31, 2026 at 3:01 PM
A Stan transpiler in Julia!
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A Stan transpiler in Julia! | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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January 30, 2026 at 3:09 PM
We’re looking for nominations for the American Statistical Association’s Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award.
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We’re looking for nominations for the American Statistical Association’s Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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January 29, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Not quite adversarial collaboration
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Not quite adversarial collaboration | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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January 29, 2026 at 2:11 PM
OK, I reread that classic paper by Paul Meehl, and . . .
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OK, I reread that classic paper by Paul Meehl, and . . . | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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January 28, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Postdoctoral position at the University of Pennsylvania on the study of political information
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Postdoctoral position at the University of Pennsylvania on the study of political information | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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January 28, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Survey Statistics: Total Margin of Error II
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Survey Statistics: Total Margin of Error II | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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January 27, 2026 at 10:45 PM
How the new era of CEO supervillains are trapped in their own ideology
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How the new era of CEO supervillains are trapped in their own ideology | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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January 27, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Machine learning research is not serious research and therefore hallucinated references are not necessarily a big deal, agrees a prestigious group of machine learning researchers
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Machine learning research is not serious research and therefore hallucinated references are not necessarily a big deal, agrees a prestigious group of machine learning researchers | Statistical Modeli...
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January 27, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Science vs. superstition and the pluralist’s dilemma
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Science vs. superstition and the pluralist’s dilemma | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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January 26, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Post-doc positions in Finland
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Post-doc positions in Finland | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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January 26, 2026 at 2:21 PM