The Importance of Thinking Statistically
In his enjoyable and accessible book, Numbers Rule Your World, statistician and blogger Kaiser Fung talks a lot about the value of “thinking statistically.” I was reminded of this point twice in the...
View ArticleSome Suggested Readings for Political Forecasters
A few people have recently asked me to recommend readings on political forecasting for people who aren’t already immersed in the subject. Since the question keeps coming up, I thought I’d answer with a...
View ArticleForecasting Round-Up No. 4
Another in an occasional series of posts calling out interesting work on forecasting. See here, here, and here for earlier ones. 1. A gaggle of researchers at Penn State, including Phil Schrodt, have...
View ArticleElection Monitoring : Democratization :: Drug Testing : Sport
AP reports today that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is conducting an “extraordinary” audit of Jamaica’s drug-testing agency after allegations surfaced that the Jamaican organization had failed to...
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