Obsession with Regression

Saturday, October 15, 2016

Two short pieces on assault

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I write in response to Trump's comments and discuss my concerns about arguments made by Stanford advocates against assault.
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Tuesday, August 9, 2016

How much does losing the first round of a tournament hurt your final result?

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This is the second half of a two-part piece about arguments I’ve had with Shengwu Li . Part 1 gives a statistical argument for why in som...
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Monday, July 25, 2016

Arguments I’ve had with Shengwu Li, part 1: should you vote?

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This piece comes from conversations with my housemate , Shengwu, who is leaving us for Harvard. We are all sad about this; I am sad about...
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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

How Angry to Be

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This essay was written over the course of six months and was initially titled “Why I don’t write angry feminist essays”. Then I realized th...
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Emma Pierson
I love using statistics to make sense of the world. I'm at Stanford doing a PhD in computer science after spending a year studying statistics at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship and a year as a researcher at Coursera and 23andMe.
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