Archive - Data, On Average

AI Errors Are Statistical Errors

If it trains like a duck and predicts like a duck...

Aug 13, 2024 •

June 2024

Yet Another Crack at the Principles of Microeconomics

Surely this time it's solved

Jun 6, 2024 •

March 2024

Waiting for the Other Sheep to Drop

Should recent changes in college education make the sheepskin effect smaller? Can we check yet if they have? Let's give it a shot.

Mar 22, 2024 •

Expectations of Students

I think the pandemic broke our communication to students about what is expected of them to get something out of college.

Mar 3, 2024 •

January 2024

What Should School Teach Teenagers About Statistics?

The folly of too much, the agony of not enough.

Jan 17, 2024 •

November 2023

My Unnatural War Against the Natural Logarithm

Putting Euler under the broiler

Nov 1, 2023 •

October 2023

Subscriber Payments Will be Going to GiveDirectly from Now On

As promised, subscriber payments to my Substack will be donated to charity.

Oct 31, 2023 •

How Software Defaults Threaten Science

Ehh it's probably fine. Right?

Oct 6, 2023 •

September 2023

Textbooks (Including Mine) Are a Little Wrong about Interrupted Time Series

Underdog method that nobody is actually rooting for takes another one on the chin.

Sep 25, 2023 •

August 2023

Decomposition: Low-Hanging Econometric Fruit for the Business World

Breakdown, it's alright.

Aug 21, 2023 •

July 2023

Model, Model, Who’s Got the Model?

On the limits of formal inference relative to down home thinkin'. Or, sometimes, things that are expensive are worse.

Jul 10, 2023 •

June 2023

Confounding Twins

A Successful but Pointless (?) Chalkboard Journey

Jun 18, 2023 •

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