Probably Overthinking It

For a recent collaboration with AIBM, I found myself working with data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), which I used in several examples in Think Stats.

I am working on a new book called You Would Choose Now: Measuring America’s Progress Toward Fairness and Tolerance.

The online version of Think Java now features interactive widgets that run the code examples in the browser.

A recent post claims that the “most statistically dominant athlete” of all time was cricketer Don Bradman.

In 2016, Barack Obama gave a commencement address at Howard University, where he said If you had to choose one moment in history in which you could be born, and you didn’t know ahead of time who you were going to be — what nationality, what gender, what r…

When I go crawling around in data from the General Social Survey, sooner or later I run into Ryan Burge, who writes Graphs About Religion.

Here’s a probability puzzle from a TED-Ed video called Can you solve the frog riddle?

This article is one of a series looking at changes in public opinion over the last 50 years, with a focus on culture war topics.

This article is one of a series exploring responses to core questions in the General Social Survey (GSS), estimating period and cohort effects, and looking for historical events that might explain the trends we see.

Yesterday I presented a talk at ODSC East 2026, called “Counterfactual Analysis with Bayesian Models: What Drives the Life Expectancy Gap?”

In Graphs About Religion, Ryan Burge recently wrote about changing opinions about assisted suicide and how they relate to religion.