Our boilerplate intro to a man and his blog:
Professor Gelman Is Not Impressed By The "Nudge" People
Andrew Gelman is Professor of statistics and political science at Columbia Uni., the guy who tells the other social scientists how to get their numbers right so they can at least give the appearance of being a science. He has a very tart tongue which, combined with a high level intellect is fun to watch taking on sacred cows and shibboleths. As long as you aren't the target of said intellect and/or sharp tongue.
Here he is looking at Cass Sunstein as Sunstein's new book rolls out....
From Professor Gelman at his Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference and Social Science blog, February 9:
Bruce Knuteson writes:
Prompted by your blog post this morning, I attach a plot from Figure 3 of They Still Haven’t Told You showing overnight and intraday returns to AIG (with logarithmic vertical scale, updated with data through the end of October)....
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As early as five months into the covid-time Professor Gelman discussed one of the fraudsters of pandemic modeling, May 30, 2020:
“So the real scandal is: Why did anyone ever listen to this guy?”
