Year: 2021

In 2016, opinion polls – and in particular poll-based prediction models – suffered a major hit with the inability to predict the election of Donald J. Trump as the president of the United States. If you want a quick reminder, take a look at this forecast from the 2016 Presidential Election: The 2020 Presidential Election […]

858. Monty Hall Simulations 859. Making the Monty Hall problem weirder but obvious 860. The Intuitive Monty Hall Problem 861. The psychology of the Monty Hall problem: Discovering psychological mechanisms for solving a tenacious brain teaser 862. The Collider Principle in Causal Reasoning: Why the Monty Hall Dilemma Is So Hard 863. Rationality, the Bayesian […]

This is a brief follow-up post to my previous post with advice on how you can improve your figures. Can it be worse than showing variable names instead of actual labels on your figures? Yes. You can have no labels at all. Take a look at this article. It’s great and includes references to a […]

I was going through a few resources with some good advice on writing research papers. Might be of interest to some of you: – How to write a great research paper (Simon Peyton Jones from Microsoft gives seven suggestions for how to improve your research papers) – Ten simple rules for structuring papers (Table 1 […]

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