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The success of ComSciCon

Each week, Symposium provides a blogging forum for the week’s featured article. This week’s author is Prof. Andrew Gelman. You can read his blog here as well as his frequent posts on The ...
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Janet Malcolm, reconsidered

Each week, Symposium provides a blogging forum for the week’s featured article. This week’s author is Prof. Andrew Gelman. You can read his blog here as well as his frequent posts on The ...
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The institution of tenure

Each week, Symposium provides a blogging forum for the week’s featured article. This week’s author is Prof. Andrew Gelman. You can read his blog here as well as his frequent posts on The ...
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Sorry, Wrong Number

Andrew Gelman

Sorry, Wrong Number
For some pundits, statistics can be an inconvenient truth. (William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC NewsWire via Getty Images)
How do bad numbers get into circulation in our political discourse, and how do they stay there, even after being refuted?
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About The Author:

Andrew Gelman is professor of statistics and political science and director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University. You can follow him on his blog as well as on The Monkey Cage.