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Interest groups and the making of legislation
How are the activities of interest groups related to the making of legislation? Does mobilization of interest groups lead to more legislation in the future? Alternatively, does the adoption of new pol… more →
Rules of Reason
A great example of careful causal analysis in observational data: restless legs and depression
wrote 1 month ago: Last year, Li and colleagues at Harvard brought out a paper looking into restless legs syndrome and … more →
To share or not to share?
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wrote 1 month ago: Big data is great. I don’t think anyone can argue against the benefits of making datasets, whether t … more →
Interest groups and the making of legislation
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wrote 2 months ago: How are the activities of interest groups related to the making of legislation? Does mobilization of … more →
SGPGI-NIH Workshops on ‘Scientific paper writing’, ‘Biostatistics’ and ‘Observational Studies’
wrote 2 months ago: As part of an Indo-US Collaboration, the National Institutes of Health, USA has sponsored a series o … more →
SGPGI-NIH Workshops on 'Scientific paper writing', 'Biostatistics' and 'Observational Studies'
wrote 3 months ago: As part of an Indo-US Collaboration, the National Institutes of Health, USA has sponsored a series o … more →
Correlation does not imply causation. Then what does it imply?
wrote 7 months ago: ‘Correlation does not imply causation’ is an adage students from all social sciences are … more →
SAMSI DDDHC Workshop: My experience
wrote 8 months ago: The following blog entry is from John Olaomi, Associate Professor from the University of South Afric … more →
Science For Smart People
wrote 11 months ago: ‘Fat Head’ writer/director Tom Naughton’s speech about how to tell good science fr … more →
Facebook does randomized experiments to study social interactions
wrote 11 months ago: Facebook has a Data Science Team. And here is what they do: Eytan Bakshy [...] wanted to learn wheth … more →
Today's random medical news: "___ can cause ___ in ___"
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Protestants, Missionaries and the Diffusion of Liberal Democracy
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wrote 11 months ago: A new APSR article [ungated] argues for the crucial role of Protestant missionaries in the global sp … more →
Is breastfeeding all it's cracked up to be?
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wrote 11 months ago: Zoe Williams wrote an intriguing article in The Guardian that challenged some widely held assumption … more →
Models in Political Science
wrote 1 year ago: Inside Higher Ed has a good interview with David Primo and Kevin Clarke on their new book A Model Di … more →
Demanding babies and fraught mothers
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wrote 1 year ago: There was quite a bit of coverage at the end last week about a report published by Essex and Oxford- … more →
Explanation and the quest for 'significant' relationships. Part II
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wrote 1 year ago: In Part I I argue that the search and discovery of statistically significant relationships does not … more →
Explanation and the quest for 'significant' relationships. Part I
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wrote 1 year ago: The ultimate goal of social science is causal explanation*. The actual goal of most academic researc … more →
Writing with the rear-view mirror
wrote 1 year ago: Social science research is supposed to work like this: 1) You want to explain a certain case or a cl … more →
Unit of analysis vs. Unit of observation
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wrote 1 year ago: Having graded another batch of 40 student research proposals, the distinction between ‘unit of … more →
Are Older Women on Statins at Risk For Diabetes?
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wrote 1 year ago: One of the more interesting aspects of having a blog is getting comments from readers. It is always … more →
