Chris Said
Beef-o-tuna-tarianism: The low effort way to improve animal welfare
No, we are not underinvested in squishy charities
Bounty hunters for science
Scientific whistleblowers can be compensated for their service
The case for criminalizing scientific misconduct
The respiratory infection study to end all respiratory infection studies
The Air Quality Index doesn’t make any sense
The El Chapo model of AI containment
Double descent in human learning
A map of laboratory-acquired infections
Small correlations can drive large increases in teen depression
The uncertainty pill
Ke (2021) is not logarithmic
10x the live viral count, 10x the infectiousness
Waning immunity and the little paradox of R0
Pandemic virus prediction: All risk and minimal benefit
Teens, loneliness, and the social media paradox
The FDA is 5X too worried about long term credibility
Autism, folic acid, and the trend without a blip
You’re probably measuring your treatment effect incorrectly
Instrumental variables analysis for non-economists
Things that confused me about cross-entropy
Contagiousness sensitivity: The metric that could control the pandemic
Upgrading to MathJax 3.0 after the Kramdown update in Github Pages
Why low sensitivity antigen tests are better than slow PCR tests
Everything I've learned about solar storm risk and EMP attacks
Coronavirus and fragmented data pipelines
The shower problem
Optimizing sample sizes in A/B testing, Part III: Aggregate time-discounted expected lift
Optimizing sample sizes in A/B testing, Part II: Expected lift
Optimizing sample sizes in A/B testing, Part I: General summary
Variance after scaling and summing: One of the most useful facts from statistics
Using your ears and head to escape the Cone Of Confusion
Hyperbolic discounting — The irrational behavior that might be rational after all
Religions as firms
Three questions for social scientists: Internet virtue edition
Keyboard shortcuts I couldn't live without
Learning by flip-flopping
Empirical Bayes for multiple sample sizes
Optimizing things in the USSR
Comparing the opinions of economic experts and the general public
Four pitfalls of hill climbing
How to make polished Jupyter presentations with optional code visibility
New Blog Address
10 classic dialogues you can find on the internet
Across industries, we’re getting better at picking metrics
Independent t-tests and the 83% confidence interval: A useful trick for eyeballing your data.
Jumping quickly between deep directories
How failed replications change our effect size estimates
Jason Mitchell's essay
How I use Twitter
High School STEM curriculum wishlist
Is your job in another state?
My Insight Data Science Project
FAQ for Which Famous Economist
New model of binocular rivalry
Canadian funding models for all
Eight Lessons from the Reproducibility Crisis
In defense of correlation/causation blowhards
New paper on autism
Why are contrast response functions linear in fMRI and nonmonotonic in EEG?
National labs for all the sciences
FAQ
It’s the incentive structure, people! Why science reform must come from the granting agencies.