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I am a professor of statistics and political science at Columbia University and author of Bayesian Data Analysis (with John Carlin, Hal Stern, and Donald Rubin), Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks (with Deborah Nolan), Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models (with Jennifer Hill), and, most recently, Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do (with David Park, Boris Shor, Joe Bafumi, and Jeronimo Cortina).
December 31, 2009
My colleague Macartan Humphreys recently came out with book, Coethnicity (with James Habyarimana, Daniel Posner, and Jeremy Weinstein, addresses the question of why public services and civic cooperation tend to be worse in areas with more ethnic variation. To put...
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There's some psychological/political/sociological phenomenon, I can't remember what it's called, in which you tend to think of yourself and your allies as a diverse coalition, while thinking of the people on the other side as a monolithic bloc. I was...
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December 30, 2009
Yesterday I posted this graph, a parallel-coordinates plot showing health care spending and life expectancy in a sample of countries: I remarked that a scatterplot should be better. Commenter Freddy posted a link to the data, so, just for laffs,...
Posted by Andrew Gelman at 10:06 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 29, 2009
I recently blogged on the following ridiculous (to me) quote from economist Gary Becker: According to the economic approach, therefore, most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent "suicides" in the sense that they could have been postponed if...
Posted by Andrew Gelman at 4:34 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
David Blei points me to this report by Lars Backstrom, Jonathan Chang, Cameron Marlow, and Itamar Rosenn on an estimate of the proportion of Facebook users who are white, black, hispanic, and asian (or, should I say, White, Black, Hispanic,...
Posted by Andrew Gelman at 9:42 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 28, 2009
I recently reviewed Bryan Caplan's book, The Myth of the Rational Voter, for the journal Political Psychology. I wish I thought this book was all wrong, because then I could've titled my review, "The Myth of the Myth of the...
Posted by Andrew Gelman at 9:41 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 21, 2009
Stephen Dubner quotes Gary Becker as saying: According to the economic approach, therefore, most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent "suicides" in the sense that they could have been postponed if more resources had been invested in prolonging...
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December 20, 2009
The following is the last paragraph in a (positive) referee report I just wrote. It's relevant for lots of other articles too, I think, so I'll repeat it here: Just as a side note, I recommend that the authors post...
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Mike Spagat writes: I hope that this new paper [by Michael Spagat, Andrew Mack, Tara Cooper, and Joakim Kreutz] on serious errors in a paper on conflict mortality published in the British Medical Journal will interest you. For one thing...
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December 18, 2009
Category: data mining
Wired reports a great new opportunity to make money online by suing internet companies for revealing the data: An in-the-closet lesbian mother is suing Netflix for privacy invasion, alleging the movie rental company made it possible for her to be...
Posted by Aleks Jakulin at 9:46 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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