blog — Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science (Andrew Gelman) — 26 Aug 2026
(1) “Do you think the culture of research has genuinely changed since the replication crisis became widely discussed, or has it mostly generated new compliance rituals around pre-registration and open data while leaving the underlying incentive structure intact?, (2) Regarding Columbia University, “is there a statistical or social scientific way of understanding how institutions lose the ability to accurately perceive their own situation?”
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Luke Ford writes: [Regarding] the replication crisis, researcher degrees of freedom, and the gap between what statistical methods claim to establish and what they can actually support . . . Looking at the current state of the social sciences, do … Continue reading →