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This blog makes public the hallway conversations about social science statistical methods and analysis from the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and related research groups. Expect to see posts on trends in methodological thought, questions and comments, paper and conference announcements, applied problems needing methodological solutions, and methodological techniques seeking applied problems. Also included are summaries of papers and comments from a popular weekly research workshop held here and billed as a tour of Harvard's statistical innovations and applications with weekly stops in different disciplines. [read more...]

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2 April 2009

Correlation is Not Causation, Part 1,345,649,303

As a follow to on Andy's post, here's a great addition to the slides of any methods class. Here is the original. Via Megan McArdle at the Atlantic Monthly.

Posted by John Graves at April 2, 2009 6:23 PM

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