751. People do not, on average, have an aversion towards randomized experiments in policy making (Mazar et al. 2023) 752. If there is a maximum limit to the human lifespan, we are not yet approaching it (McCarthy and Wang 2023) 753. Politicians consistently overestimate how conservative voters are (Pilet et al. 2023) 754. Loyal employees […]
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Against nudging
Here is a list of issues, challenges, and problems with nudging. It is by no means an exhaustive list, nor am I sure whether I agree with all arguments presented below. I try to make as strong a case against nudging as I can, but this is not the same as my case is strong, […]
Potpourri: Statistics #97
1862. Data Vis Dispatch: June 6, June 13, June 20, June 27 1863. Learning Julia with #TidyTuesday and Tidier.jl 1864. Introduction to Data Visualization for the Web 1865. How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap 1866. Simulating confounders, colliders and mediators 1867. Static and Dynamic Web Scraping with R 1868. Using […]
Kvalitetsvægtede gennemsnit af meningsmålinger og statistisk usikkerhed #7
FiveThirtyEight har netop introduceret deres nye kvalitetsvægtede gennemsnit af meningsmålinger i USA. Introduktionen til deres nye gennemsnit kan findes her og du kan læse mere om metoden bag her. Baggrunden er, at Nate Silver ikke længere er ansat hos FiveThirtyEight. Nate Silver havde alle rettigheder til de modeller, der blev anvendt (jvf. et indlæg på […]
National narcissism and proportion estimation in surveys
In a study titled ‘We Made History: Citizens of 35 Countries Overestimate Their Nation’s Role in World History’, the authors conclude that most people overestimate the contribution of the country they are currently living in to world history. This is, according to the authors, evidence of national narcissism. The authors asked students in 35 countries […]