I recently came across this interesting blog post, in which the author describes his experience dealing with state insurance regulators in the US. He points out that regulators are often ignorant of even the most basic statistical techniques used in the…
Month: October 2017
Justin Wolfers recently published a piece in the New York Times in which he describes the results of a study about discrimination by local public officials in the US. I was going to publish a post about gun control, but…
I don’t have time to write another post for the blog at the moment, though I have several of them in the works, but I wanted to let you know about a few things I published elsewhere. I already mentioned…
L. J. Zigerell had an interesting exchange with the authors of a recent meta-analysis of field experiments about discrimination on the labor market. According to him, the data suggests there is a strong publication bias, but they argue that’s not really…