Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

My new posts here have a one-year waiting list, but I’m bumping this one up because it’s important.

OK, we went on over and did a head-to-head

Just send me your goddamn prompt.

Wendy Moore, in a review of a book by Oliver Basciano, writes:

Leprosy is caused by a bacterium, Mycobacterium leprae, first identified by a Norwegian doctor, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, in 1873 . . . Convince...

A frequent commenter pointed me to this paper, “Sport and longevity: an observational study of international athletes.”

All I can say is . . . Wow! This paper is an absolute clinic in bad quantitative social science research.

I’ll leave ...

StanCon 2026 just happened!

And here are the talks:

Matthew Kay
Adrian Seyboldt
Paul-Christian Bürkner
Charles Margossian
Javier Enriqu...