Math-Frolic!

  An old, but still handy, statistical primer I just ran across, courtesy of Gelman: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2009/05/24/handy...

 Kaiser Fung overviewing Andrew Gelman on the problems of pre-election polls: https://junkcharts.typepad.com/numbersruleyourworld/2022/02/re...

Hmmm.... am thinking that maybe members of the Hoover Institution truly qualify as being institutionalized: https://statmodeling.stat.columb...

  Deborah Mayo on the continuing controversy over P-values and significance testing: https://errorstatistics.com/2022/01/09/the-asa-controve...

  From a behavioral scientist: https://towardsdatascience.com/ditch-p-values-use-bootstrap-confidence-intervals-instead-bba56322b522

  What models and data analysis can miss: https://mindmatters.ai/2021/12/the-cult-of-statistical-significance-and-the-neglect-of-oomph/

  Natural immunity vs. vaccination: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0b98hzl

 A LOT of scientific papers later appear to be wrong. John Cook attempts to explain the likely reasons; longer than his typical posts, but s...

 Bigger not always better...: https://www.statschat.org.nz/2021/12/10/making-it-up-in-volume/

Regression discontinuity, oink, oink: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/11/21/just-another-day-at-the-sausage-factory-its-just-fun...

  It's complicated...: https://retractionwatch.com/2021/11/09/bad-math-covid-treatment-paper-by-pierre-kory-retracted-for-flawed-results...

  Siobhan Roberts on epidemiology, uncertainty, and covid: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/10/15/1037195/engineering-epidemiology-pan...

  Jordan Ellenberg points to this posting for those confused by recent covid statistics/claims: https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israe...

New issue/compilation of " Statistical Thinking News " via Frank Harrell out: https://paper.li/stn  

  An example of Journal 'expression of concern' vs. retraction, via Retraction Watch : https://retractionwatch.com/2021/08/23/reader...

  A little introduction to the history and basics of significance testing in "squishy" psychology: https://www.sciencenews.org/art...

 Some basics: https://www.cambridgemaths.org/blogs/binomials-and-the-basics-of-bayesianism/

  How long (if ever) before education tackles the math innumeracy of the populace... and what will be the eventual consequences of not doing...

The ongoing problems of 'real-world' stats and Covid math:  https://junkcharts.typepad.com/numbersruleyourworld/2021/07/funny-math-o...

  The power of post-publication peer review: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/06/25/this-awesome-pubpeer-thread-is-about-80-times...