Researcher bias:
“Bias can neither be created nor destroyed; it may only be converted from one form to another!”
The “law of the conservation of bias,” as discussed in our recent article on the advantages of exploratory hypothesis testing (Rubin & Donkin, 2022).
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2113771
My attempt to highlight the differences between economic rationality and Null Hypothesis Significance Testing.
https://intemittdefault.wordpress.com/2022/11/17/from-decision-theory-to-p-values/
Brief discussion about why physical equations of motion tend to not be higher order differential equations
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/21364/
A mathematical (not political) post on forecasting, uncertainty, and martingales.
A few years back, Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Nate Silver had a fierce debate about how to forecast uncertain events like elections. There are some interesting general principles here worth thinking about. The thrust of NNT's point was that Silver's 538 forecast was too volatile through time — it wiggled too much to be a "good" forecast. Why does this matter?
Generated a provisional profile pic using the prescription in this half-serious paper.
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3254017
computational scientist, interested in science, news, politics