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Silver Bulletin (Nate Silver) ·

FLIPR 2026 midterm election forecast

Silver Bulletin's prediction for every Senate, House, and gubernatorial election in 2026.
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science (Andrew Gelman) ·

“In the run-up to the trial, the brothers conducted an elaborate public relations campaign . . . also arranged for payments to influencers and podcasters who…

From a news article about some recently-convicted rapists: Three brothers who ran a yearslong conspiracy to traffic women and girls for sex were sentenced to 30 years each in prison on Tuesday . . .…
Retraction Watch ·

Springer Nature journal could lose registry standing for clearing author of duplication

A Springer Nature journal’s failure to find duplication in two papers by the same author could cost its official recognition as a scholarly publication in Norway. The national register in Norway that…
Junk Charts ·

Abstractions in data viz

New paper with Andrew Gelman
Silver Bulletin (Nate Silver) ·

How popular is Donald Trump?

Silver Bulletin approval ratings for President Trump — and all presidents since Truman.
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science (Andrew Gelman) ·

Bou-Rabee’s breakthrough paper, “Persistence Pays: Square-root condition-number dependence for Metropolis-adjusted kinetic Langevin Monte Carlo …”

This post is from Bob This one’s a big deal. Bou-Rabee, Nawaf. 2026. Persistence Pays: Square-root condition-number dependence for Metropolis-adjusted kinetic Langevin Monte Carlo with a…
Retraction Watch ·

Federal U.S. judge tosses $1 billion defamation lawsuit against Elsevier

A district judge has ended a $1 billion defamation case against Elsevier over a study about air purification technology after concluding the plaintiff’s evidence was too weak to take to trial. Global…
Junk Charts ·

Doper duper

Marathon gold medalist caught
Silver Bulletin (Nate Silver) ·

Who’s ahead on the generic congressional ballot?

Our constantly-updating tracker of polls for the most important indicator in the race for Congress.
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science (Andrew Gelman) ·

Tension vs. excitement during NBA games

This is related to our discussion of the martingale property of calibrated probability forecasts. Jeremy Lu writes: I’m a former student of Dr. Jennifer Hill at NYU and have been keeping up with your…
Retraction Watch ·

Game theory society yanks support for journal after Elsevier fails to renew EIC contract

The Game Theory Society is severing ties with one of its official journals. The move comes two months after the journal’s editors resigned because Elsevier failed to renew the contract for the…
Silver Bulletin (Nate Silver) ·

How popular is the Iran War?

Silver Bulletin approval ratings for the ongoing conflict.
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science (Andrew Gelman) ·

We interrupt our usual programming to inform you that I was never hired by Facebook to do a hit job on Jonathan Haidt.

So. I got some emails today from various people, pointing me to this item from a court filing: This seems to be the story: Meta internally set a goal to “get the academic community to disavow” and…
Retraction Watch ·

Another Sydney investigation of astrophysicist leads to retractions

The University of Sydney has once again investigated the work of a former research fellow in its physics department, this time resulting in the retraction of two papers over concerns that data in…
Silver Bulletin (Nate Silver) ·

Some thoughts on South Carolina’s surprisingly close Senate race

What if Black voters turn out like it’s a presidential race? Democrats’ path to a Senate majority could become much more robust.
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science (Andrew Gelman) ·

Survey Statistics: how to measure hospital quality ?

Last week we chatted about hopes for a new edition of Lumley 2010. Alan Zaslavsky recommends this textbook in his course. After taking the course in 2011, I asked Alan to advise my PhD. Alan’s work…
Retraction Watch ·

Weekend reads: Journals and the ‘Mathpocalypse’; autism paper earns EOC; Cell Press investigating bribery allegations

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more…
Silver Bulletin (Nate Silver) ·

FLIPR 2026 Senate forecast

Silver Bulletin's prediction for every Senate election in 2026.
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science (Andrew Gelman) ·

Six questions about political polarization and my responses

Mary Murray writes: I am a Year 12 student in the UK currently completing an Extended Project Qualification (EPQ), an independent research project equivalent to half an A-Level. I intend to study law…
Retraction Watch ·

Journal updates retraction notice as Princeton student author stays in the spotlight

A Wiley journal has corrected a retraction notice to clarify the author, a Princeton student, never conducted the study in the first place, as the student has gained publicity for visits to the…
Silver Bulletin (Nate Silver) ·

FLIPR 2026 Governors forecast

Silver Bulletin's prediction for every gubernatorial election in 2026.
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science (Andrew Gelman) ·

MRP at NYT

Coincidentally, or maybe not, on the same day that our New York Times contact informed me about their new job opening, Yair points us to this new feature at the NYT website, “Times Voter Trends” at…
Retraction Watch ·

Thousands of research studies violate journal policies on collaborations between editors and authors

Over 10,000 peer-reviewed papers from two publishers breach journal policies about past collaborations between handling editors and authors, a new analysis has found. The work — presented October 15…
Silver Bulletin (Nate Silver) ·

FLIPR 2026 House forecast

Silver Bulletin's prediction for every House election in 2026.
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science (Andrew Gelman) ·

One-year election analytics fellowship at the New York Times

Will Davis writes: We ended up hiring somebody who had seen the job posting through your blog, and he is fantastic. I also wanted to let you know that we have a fellowship slot open. This is a…
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