Posts Tagged ‘ Sociology ’

Job opening! Come work with us!

June 18, 2013
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Postdoctoral position in statistical modeling of social networks A full-time postdoctoral position is available beginning Fall 2014 in the research group of Tian Zheng and Andrew Gelman working on statistical analysis and modeling of social network data, in close cooperation with our experimental collaborators. Four key papers of this project so far are: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/overdisp_final.pdf http://nersp.osg.ufl.edu/~ufruss/documents/mccormick_salganik_zheng10.pdf [...]The post Job opening! Come work with us! appeared first on Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference,…

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Using trends in R-squared to measure progress in criminology??

June 8, 2013
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Torbjørn Skardhamar writes: I am a sociologist/criminologist working at Statistics Norway. As I am not a trained statistician, I find myself sometimes in need to check basic statistical concepts. Recently, I came across an article which I found a bit strange, but I needed to check up on my statistical understanding of a very basic [...]The post Using trends in R-squared to measure progress in criminology?? appeared first on Statistical…

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A story of fake-data checking being used to shoot down a flawed analysis at the Farm Credit Agency

June 5, 2013
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Austin Kelly writes: While reading your postings [or here] on the subject of testing your model by running fake data I was reminded of the fact that I got one of these kinds of tests actually published in a GAO report back in the day. Reading your posts on Unz and political vs. economic discourse [...]The post A story of fake-data checking being used to shoot down a flawed analysis…

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The statistical properties of smart chains (and referral chains more generally)

June 3, 2013
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The statistical properties of smart chains (and referral chains more generally)

Louis Mittel writes: The premise of the column this guy is starting is interesting: Noah Davis interviews a smart person and then interviews the smartest person that smart person knows and so on. It reminded me of you mentioning survey design strategy of asking people about other people, like “How many people do you know [...]The post The statistical properties of smart chains (and referral chains more generally) appeared first…

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Flame bait

June 2, 2013
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Flame bait

Mark Palko asks what I think of this article by Francisco Louca, who writes about “‘hybridization’, a synthesis between Fisherian and Neyman-Pearsonian precepts, defined as a number of practical proceedings for statistical testing and inference that were developed notwithstanding the original authors, as an eventual convergence between what they considered to be radically irreconcilable.” To [...]The post Flame bait appeared first on Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science.

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How to fix the tabloids? Toward replicable social science research

May 31, 2013
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How to fix the tabloids? Toward replicable social science research

This seems to be the topic of the week. Yesterday I posted on the sister blog some further thoughts on those “Psychological Science” papers on menstrual cycles, biceps size, and political attitudes, tied to a horrible press release from the journal Psychological Science hyping the biceps and politics study. Then I was pointed to these [...]The post How to fix the tabloids? Toward replicable social science research appeared first on…

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Another one of those “Psychological Science” papers (this time on biceps size and political attitudes among college students)

May 29, 2013
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Paul Alper writes: Unless I missed it, you haven’t commented on the recent article of Michael Bang Peterson [with Daniel Sznycer, Aaron Sell, Leda Cosmides, and John Tooby]. It seems to have been reviewed extensively in the lay press. A typical example is here. This review begins with “If you are physically strong, social science [...]The post Another one of those “Psychological Science” papers (this time on biceps size and…

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To Throw Away Data: Plagiarism as a Statistical Crime

May 22, 2013
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To Throw Away Data: Plagiarism as a Statistical Crime

I’ve been blogging a lot lately about plagiarism (sorry, Bob!), and one thing that’s been bugging me is, why does it bother me so much. Part of the story is simple: much of my reputation comes from the words I write, so I bristle at any attempt to devalue words. I feel the same way [...]The post To Throw Away Data: Plagiarism as a Statistical Crime appeared first on Statistical…

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The recursion of pop-econ

May 10, 2013
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Dave Berri posted the following at the Freakonomics blog: The “best” picture of 2012 was Argo. At least that’s the film that won the Oscar for best picture. According to the Oscars, the decision to give this award to Argo was made by the nearly 6,000 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts [...]The post The recursion of pop-econ appeared first on Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social…

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A tale of two discussion papers

May 9, 2013
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A tale of two discussion papers

Over the years I’ve written a dozen or so journal articles that have appeared with discussions, and I’ve participated in many published discussions of others’ articles as well. I get a lot out of these article-discussion-rejoinder packages, in all three of my roles as reader, writer, and discussant. Part 1: The story of an unsuccessful [...]The post A tale of two discussion papers appeared first on Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference,…

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