Andrew 
The above is the title of a talk by computer scientist Cynthia Rudin. here’s the abstract: While the trend in machine learning has tended towards building more complicated (black box) models, such models are not as useful for high stakes … Read more
Someone who wishes to wishes to remain anonymous writes: My son is in 11th grade. Below you’ll find a HW question which was given in my son’s statistics class. How would you answer? Ummmm, it’s hard to read that so … Read more
A correspondent who wishes to remain anonymous points us to this article in Technology Review, “Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online. Galactica was supposed to help scientists. Instead, it mindlessly spat out biased and incorrect … Read more
As you might remember from a few months ago, there was a story going around that some economists just looooved to tell. The story had all sorts of attributes that you might expect would make economists happy, including a paradox … Read more
I think that many mistakes in applied statistics could be avoided if people were to think in a more frequentist way. Look at it this way: In the usual way of thinking, you apply a statistical procedure to the data, … Read more
There are probably lots of clever answers to this one, but I’ll go with: One of them was hyped in the media as a clean-cut fresh face that would restore fan confidence in a tired, scandal-plagued entertainment cartel—and the other … Read more
David Gal writes: I wanted to share the attached paper on choice prediction that I recently co-authored with Itamar Simonson in case it’s of interest. I think it’s somewhat related to your work on the Piranha Problem, in that it … Read more
It’s funny. I’m the statistician, but I’m more skeptical about statistics, compared to these renowned scientists. The quotes Here’s one: “You have no choice but to accept that the major conclusions of these studies are true.” Ahhhh, but we do … Read more
[cat picture] A fundamental tenet of social psychology, behavioral economics, at least how it is presented in the news media, and taught and practiced in many business schools, is that small “nudges,” often the sorts of things that we might … Read more
tl;dr. Giving other people the “benefit of the doubt” or “steelmanning” can improve the quality of a discussion. But this practice comes with its own risks, as it can lead to being uncharitable or “strawmanning” of other positions that are … Read more