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Introduction: Kaiser nails it . The offending article , by John Tierney, somehow ended up in the Science section rather than the Opinion section. As an opinion piece (or, for that matter, a blog), Tierney’s article would be nothing special. But I agree with Kaiser that it doesn’t work as a newspaper article. As Kaiser notes, this story involves a bunch of statistical and empirical claims that are not well resolved by P.R. and rhetoric.
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Introduction: Kaiser nails it . The offending article , by John Tierney, somehow ended up in the Science section rather than the Opinion section. As an opinion piece (or, for that matter, a blog), Tierney’s article would be nothing special. But I agree with Kaiser that it doesn’t work as a newspaper article. As Kaiser notes, this story involves a bunch of statistical and empirical claims that are not well resolved by P.R. and rhetoric.
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Introduction: No joke. See here (from Kaiser Fung). At the Statistics Forum.
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Introduction: Bruce McCullough writes: The Sept 2009 issue of Wired had a big article on the increase in the placebo effect, and why it’s been getting bigger. Kaiser Fung has a synopsis . As if you don’t have enough to do, I thought you might be interested in blogging on this. My reply: I thought Kaiser’s discussion was good, especially this point: Effect on treatment group = Effect of the drug + effect of belief in being treated Effect on placebo group = Effect of belief in being treated Thus, the difference between the two groups = effect of the drug, since the effect of belief in being treated affects both groups of patients. Thus, as Kaiser puts it, if the treatment isn’t doing better than placebo, it doesn’t say that the placebo effect is big (let alone “too big”) but that the treatment isn’t showing any additional effect. It’s “treatment + placebo” vs. placebo, not treatment vs. placebo. That said, I’d prefer for Kaiser to make it clear that the additivity he’s assu
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Introduction: Kaiser nails it . The offending article , by John Tierney, somehow ended up in the Science section rather than the Opinion section. As an opinion piece (or, for that matter, a blog), Tierney’s article would be nothing special. But I agree with Kaiser that it doesn’t work as a newspaper article. As Kaiser notes, this story involves a bunch of statistical and empirical claims that are not well resolved by P.R. and rhetoric.
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Introduction: Answer here (courtesy of Kaiser Fung).
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Introduction: In case you couldn’t come to our panel (with Kaiser Fung, Mark Hansen, Tahir Hemphill, Manuel Lima, and Jonathan Stray, and organized by Isabel Draves), here’s the video:
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Introduction: Kaiser Fung discusses . It’s a good sign when statistical graphics are so popular that people feel the need to fake them!
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Introduction: Kaiser Fung tells what it’s really like . Here’s a sample: As soon as I [Kaiser] put the substring-concatenate expression together with two lines of code that generate data tables, it choked. Sorta like Dashiell Hammett without the broads and the heaters. And here’s another take, from a slightly different perspective.
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Introduction: Ring Lardner, Jr.: [In 1936] I was already settled in Southern California, and it may have been that first exercise of the franchise that triggered the FBI surveillance of me that would last for decades. I had assumed, of course, that I was enjoying the vaunted American privilege of the secret ballot. On a wall outside my polling place on Wilshire Boulevard, however, was a compilation of the district’s registered voters: Democrats, a long list of names; Republicans, a somewhat lesser number; and “Declines to State,” one, “Ring W. Lardner, Jr.” The day after the election, alongside those lists were published the results: Roosevelt, so many; Landon, so many; Browder, one.
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