Computer scientists today are in the position of economists in the early 2000s and Freudian psychiatrists in the 1950s
Here are last week’s social science posts on the blog:
The Future of Statistical Modeling
Each week I'll link to recent posts at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu As special bonus content, I'll also post some things here that are scheduled to appear on the blog in the future.
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The blessing of dimensionality
How to avoid the “clean data, clean model” trap when teaching statistics and data science
University professor is a job. Not an award.
Don Rubin said once that a problem with university hiring committees is that they think that they’re giving an award rather than finding someone to do a job.
What gets you is not what you don’t know but what you don’t know you don’t know.
Placebo tests deserve a model, not just a glance
"Why, for example, wasn’t there an all-government effort to get schools reopened sooner and more consistently?"
This is not a hard one to answer.
Why do David Agus and Jason Arday annoy us so much?
We give them status, and we give their employees the power to give them status, and in return they lie to us, they reward liars, and they're too lazy to do their damn jobs.
It's not about the Jewish vote
Eleven kinds of loneliness
The Syracuse Spammers are not a minor league team in an e-sports league
They're a spammy Nature journal that keeps spamming me from their home base in a strip mall in Syracuse, New York.
Who's the most pitiful person in the Cambridge University fraud scandal?
It's not who you think.
Cambridge University fraud scandal reminds me of Theranos.
It's not just plagiarism, it's fraud.