Posts on Statistics

  1. Evidence that High Insulin Levels Lead to Weight Gain

  2. Why a Low-Insulin-Index Diet Isn't Exactly a 'Lowcarb' Diet

  3. Cousin Causality

  4. Can Religion Reduce Suicide?

  5. Less is More in Mormon Church Meetings

  6. Who Leaves Mormonism?

  7. Mental Retirement: Use It or Lose It—Susann Rohwedder and Robert Willis

  8. Data on Asian Genes that Discourage Alcohol Consumption Explode the Myth that a Little Alcohol is Good for your Health

  9. Less Than 6 or More than 9 Hours of Sleep Signals a Higher Risk of Heart Attacks

  10. The Surprising Genetic Correlation Between Protein-Heavy Diets and Obesity

  11. Where is Social Science Genetics Headed?

  12. Exorcising the Devil in the Milk

  13. Are Processed Food and Environmental Contaminants the Main Cause of the Rise of Obesity?

  14. Livestock Antibiotics, Lithium and PFAS as Leading Suspects for Environmental Causes of Obesity

  15. How Rising Anorexia Can Go Along with Rising Obesity: Both Can Be Caused By Environmental Contaminants

  16. How Lithium May Have Led to Serious Obesity for the Pima Beginning around 1937

  17. Henry George Eloquently Makes the Case that Correlation Is Not Causation

  18. How Dating Apps Are Making Marriages Stronger

  19. After Crunching Reinhart and Rogoff's Data, We Found No Evidence High Debt Slows Growth

  20. Examining the Entrails: Is There Any Evidence for an Effect of Debt on Growth in the Reinhart and Rogoff Data?

  21. Frightening New England Journal of Medicine Projections for the Rise of Obesity

  22. Hypotheses about Salt and Blood Pressure

  23. Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports (Betsey Stevenson)

  24. Justin Briggs and Alex Tabarrok: Fewer Guns, Fewer Suicides

  25. Let's Set Half a Percent as the Standard for Statistical Significance

  26. Adam McCloskey and Pascal Michaillat: Calculating Incentive Compatible Critical Values Points to a t-Statistic of 3 as the 5% Critical Value after Accounting for p-Hacking

  27. Adding a Variable Measured with Error to a Regression Only Partially Controls for that Variable

Also, I referred to “Title IX and the Evolution of High School Sports,” by Betsey Stevenson.