426. Western sanctions on Russia in 2014 forced Putin to pay a political price, but the price was low compared to the benefits arising from the Crimea annexation (Alexseev and Hale 2020) 427. More than three-quarters of the Amazon rainforest has been losing resilience since the early 2000s (Boulton et al. 2022) 428. Men are […]
Hvor mange vil stemme på Inger Støjbergs parti?
Berlingske bragte forleden en artikel på baggrund af en ny meningsmåling med titlen “Hver femte dansker ville stemme på Inger Støjberg”. Meningsmålingen er foretaget for 24syv, hvortil Inger Støjberg udtaler: “Det er klart, at en sådan opbakning giver mig lyst til at vende tilbage til Folketinget.” Avisen.dk kan ligeledes rapportere på baggrund af meningsmålingen, at […]
Potpourri: Statistics #82
– Seven steps toward more transparency in statistical practice – Fooled by beautiful data: Visualization aesthetics bias trust in science, news, and social media – 10 ways to use fewer colors in your data visualizations – Why scatter plots suggest causality, and what we can do about it – LOCO: The 88-million-word language of conspiracy […]
Meetings are bad because they are meetings
I was reading a blog post by Tyler Cowen with his reflections on why meetings often are so bad. There are several good explanations and interpretations offered in the post and the comments. Here is my summary/interpretation of why meetings often are bad: Negativity bias. Good meetings are easy to forget because they are relatively […]
Assorted links #12
331. The ten best films of: 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931 332. My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file 333. The Economy 334. Lessons from my PhD 335. List of startups/companies that had successful pivots 336. Tweeting ourselves […]
Hvor mange vil stemme på Frie Grønne?
Frie Grønne kunne i slutningen af oktober sidste år fortælle, at de havde samlet nok vælgererklæringer til, at kunne stille op ved næste folketingsvalg. Hvor mange vil så stemme på partiet, nu hvor partiet er opstillingsberettiget? Dette er et relevant spørgsmål, da der er flere grønne partier på stemmesedlen ved næste folketingsvalg, herunder – foruden […]
Open and Reproducible Research Glossary
The Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training have launched a new glossary. You can find a paywalled paper introducing the glossary here. I did not find the glossary easy to skim through so I decided to download the glossary from GitHub and make my own table with the 261 entries. Here it is: Title […]
Frasier #2
In 2020, I wrote a post about my IMDb ratings of all episodes of Frasier. Since then, my great friend Knud rewatched the show and also rated all episodes on IMDb. When we both watched Seinfeld back in 2017, I compared our ratings and identified some trends and similarities in our ratings. For that reason, […]
How effective is nudging? #2
In a new study, Mertens et al. (2022) examine the effectiveness of nudging. Specifically, they conduct a meta-analysis of 455 effect sizes from 214 publications. Here is the key finding presented in the abstract: “Our results show that choice architecture interventions overall promote behavior change with a small to medium effect size of Cohen’s d […]
25 interesting facts #17
401. The highest emitting 100 urban areas account for 18% of the global carbon footprint (Moran et al. 2018) 402. In the United States, indigenous land density has been reduced by nearly 99% (Farrell et al. 2022) 403. Researchers funded by the alcohol industry are more likely to report alcohol protective effects (Golder and McCambridge […]