201. Rats can learn the complex task of navigating a car to a desired goal area (Crawford et al. 2020) 202. 90% of academics in the UK have been working while sick at least sometimes (Kinman and Wray 2021) 203. Back-to-front airline boarding in response to the COVID-19 pandemic roughly doubles the infection exposure compared […]
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New article in Political Science Research and Methods: Longevity returns to political office
In the July issue of Political Science Research and Methods, Sebastian Barfort, Robert Klemmensen and yours truly have an article on the longevity returns to political office. Here is the abstract: Does political office cause worse or better longevity prospects? Two perspectives in the literature offer contradicting answers. First, increased income, social status, and political […]
Observationer relateret til COVID-19 #4
Planer. Min plan var, at mit forrige indlæg med observationer direkte eller indirekte relateret til COVID-19 skulle blive mit sidste indlæg i rækken. Der er dog nok en selvstændig pointe i, at hvis COVID-19 har lært os én ting, så er det, at ideen om at lave planer i en pandemi giver meget lidt mening. […]
Jytte fra Marketing er desværre tilbage
Her den anden dag fik jeg læst Jytte vender tilbage. Bogen er skrevet af Morten Münster og er en opfølger til bogen Jytte fra Marketing er desværre gået for i dag (som jeg anmeldte for Kommunikationsforum). Hvis du allerede er bekendt med grundlæggende begreber inden for statistik (eksempelvis fødselsdagsparadokset), adfærdsøkonomi (eksempelvis tabsaversion), og økonomi mere […]
How to improve your figures #8: Make probabilities tangible
Statistics is about learning from data in the context of uncertainty. Often we communicate uncertainty in the form of probabilities. How should we best communicate such probabilities in our figures? The key point in this post is that we should not only present probabilities in the form of probabilities and the like. Instead, we need […]