Probably Definitely

Posting my notes from a little research on Alpha BRAIN, which is a supplement for your brain.

My tentative answer is: not yet!

The great mathematician Stanislaw Ulam challenged the great economist Paul Samuelson to name a principle in the social sciences that was both true and nonobvious.

A research center recently released an appraisal of Oakland’s guaranteed income program, where low-income families got $500 per month.

This NY Times Daily episode includes the statistic that there are more realtors than homes for sale.

Which of these code chunks is easier to grok?

I think “measurement error” as a topic is somewhat old-fashioned, but it’s important to keep in mind how much it can bias an allegedly causal estimate.

Stata’s binscatter package has some awesome functionality: it shows a binned scatterplot with a fitted regression line.

Here’s the fastest way I could see for clustering sentence meanings using Python.

Hull & Angrist make a great point about randomized “encouragement” studies with imperfect compliance, using as their example the effect of colonoscopies on colon cancer mortality.