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Wes Pegden

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Pollsters could report confidence intervals accounting for their weights and how they are correlated with the outcome. To avoid skepticism about herding, they could just publish this smaller sampling error estimate! Of course then they would lose the cover of the larger MOE...

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Great article from Emily Oster on public health messaging as it pertains to views on vaccines, raw milk, and flouride of people like RFK Jr. To maintain credibility, public health needs to be willing to prioritize accuracy and nuance above compliance.

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The After #Math: pizza tower from Carnegie Mellon University Putnam math contest lunch break. We had 300+ students registered this year, which is a record for us. I wonder if it’s the world record for the MAA Putnam. Over here at CMU, the Putnam is not just for people with tons of

The After #Math: pizza tower from <a href="/CarnegieMellon/">Carnegie Mellon University</a> Putnam math contest lunch break. We had 300+ students registered this year, which is a record for us. I wonder if it’s the world record for the <a href="/maanow/">MAA</a> Putnam. Over here at CMU, the Putnam is not just for people with tons of