Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Someone pointed to this post from last year, “If only Arxiv required researchers to sign at the top rather than the bottom of the page, none of this w...

Recently in the sister blog:

Generic language, that is, language that refers to a category as an abstract whole (e.g., ‘Girls like pink’) rather than specific individuals (e.g., ‘This girl likes pink’), is a common means by which children learn about social kinds. Here, we...

In reaction to my recent post, If Cuomo had been able to run against Ma...

OK, this is absolutely horrifying:

The ill effects of ingested lead and other heavy metals had been known since the 1920s, when employees at TEL [tetraethyl lead]-refining plants began hallucinating butterflies and going into convulsions of vi...

Poststratification uses population data on X to estimate E(Y) via E(E(Y | X, R = 1)), where R = 1 are survey respondents who provide Y and X. When the inner expectation “E” is estimated via Multilevel Regression, this is called