Recent Work
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Let’s Redefine Statistical Significance
Researchers representing a wide range of disciplines and statistical perspectives—72 of us in total—propose to redefine statistical significance.
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Repairing Democracy: We Can’t All Get What We Want, But Can We Avoid Getting What Most of Us *Really* Don’t Want?
This post illustrates what multicandidate open voting could look like if voters had the option to vote for one candidate, to vote against one candidate, or to rate all the different candidates in more complex ways. Data collected in the heat of the 2016 US presidential primaries suggests that the result would have been dramatically different than under the current system.
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A (Partial) Solution to the Replicability Crisis: Replacing P-Values
There is an ongoing crisis over the replicability of scientific findings
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What Questions Should be Asked on a National Well-Being Survey?
Many governments around the world have been expressing interest in conducting surveys to measure national well-being and in using the results to guide policy.
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Survey Measures of Happiness
Governments around the world are increasingly interested in using survey measures of happiness for the purpose of guiding policy—but it’s not entirely clear how they should do it.
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