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I decline authorship quite frequently on papers. I love to help people out with their methods and am happy to review manuscripts but if …
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I’ve been thinking about the disconnect between how statisticians and methodologists often beg people to not unnecessarily …
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This is maybe one of my more niche pet peeves. I see in a lot of places that people use or suggest instrumental variable (IV) analysis …
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So I’ve been reading a bunch about replication, reproducibility and robustness and I’ve concluded there aren’t enough …
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Something that really saps my motivation is how genuinely terrible studies are published on a daily basis. I remember how shocked I was …
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As time goes by, the clear it becomes to me that most researchers don’t know how to ask a clear research question. I’m part …
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The way peer review is currently run, it’s a cursory check that whatever is in the manuscript isn’t completely crazy. So …
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Ok. This is something I’d be interested in hearing some feedback on. If there was a comment section here which is something …
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So why do we put our estimates directly in the main text but measures of precision such as confidence intervals in parentheses? I think …
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On many occassions I’ve heard the phrase: Epidemiology has too many methodologists. The idea being that we have too many people …
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