651. Words for negative concepts mutate more than words for positive concepts across Indo-European languages (Jackson et al. 2022) 652. Renters are starkly underrepresented at all levels of government in the United States (Einstein et al. 2022) 653. The term jaywalking was defined in a larger struggle to redraw the boundary between street use and […]
Year: 2022
Effect sizes in political science
There is an increasing focus on interpreting the practical significance of effects in the social sciences (Bernardi et al. 2017; Gross 2015). A p-value is rarely, if ever, sufficient to examine the validity of a hypothesis of interest. While a large sample can ensure sufficient statistical power, it will also, all else equal, increase the […]
Books I have read in 2022
Last year I wrote a post with a list of the books I read in 2021. I decided to do a 2022 edition. 3-D digte by Dan Turèll I Never Knew That About London by Christopher Winn Storby Blues by Dan Turèll Will by Will Smith Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open […]
Maps, models and meaning
In the book Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson describes his fascination with the London Underground map: “What a piece of perfection it is, created in 1931 by a forgotten hero named Harry Beck, an out-of-work draughtsman who realized that when you are underground it doesn’t matter where you are. Beck saw – and […]
Potpourri: Statistics #91
1592. Data Vis Dispatch: January 4, January 11, January 18, January 25, February 1, February 8, February 15, February 22, March 1, March 15, COVID Trackers Special, March 29, April 5, April 12 April 19, April 26, May 3, May 10, May 17, May 24, May 31, June 7, June 14, June 21, June 28, […]