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Gigerenzer writes:

Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky’s joint papers from the 1970s and 1980s . . . turned statistical thinking–previously a niche interest–into a major research focus. . . . In their joint work, known as the heuristics-and-biases program, Kahneman and...

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As I mentioned last week, in 2021 I taught Survey Research Methods at NYU. The textbook by Groves et al. p.6 defines a

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A few times on the blog we’ve referred to the classic noir film, The Big Clock, in which the hero is caught in a compromising position, witnesses a murder, and then is tasked by his boss with tracking down ...

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This post is by Aki.

I recently blogged about the term effective sample size and also commented “A further important point is that the effective sample size depends also on which expectation is estimated.” In the comments Visruth a...

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Howard Wainer, Irina Grabovsky, and Daniel Robinson write:

We were sceptical when we read Noah Spencer’s 2024 article about “Mississippi’s education miracl...

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