Obsession with Regression

Monday, December 18, 2017

Disagreeing without disliking each other

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...increasingly seems to be impossible. Democrats dislike Republicans; Republicans dislike Democrats; even within liberal enclaves, very li...
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Friday, December 8, 2017

No, Scott Alexander, the focus on powerful men’s sexual assaults is not “a hit job” on men

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I want to rebut a recent piece in which Scott Alexander, a widely read blogger, criticizes the focus on sexual assaults committed by power...
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Sunday, August 6, 2017

Testing for discrimination in college admissions

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Recently, the Trump administration’s investigation into racial discrimination in college admissions has brought the topic back into the ne...
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Monday, April 17, 2017

Proving discrimination from personal experience

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Here’s an interaction you might’ve participated in: Member of minority group: I just had [negative interaction] with John. I don’t th...
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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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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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