LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text But... can they? We don’t actually know. In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test. And our findings are striking: LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵

Struggling with missing data? Join Paul Allison for "Missing Data Using R", a 4-week on-demand seminar starting Nov. 17. You'll learn maximum likelihood & multiple imputation—two of the most powerful #missingdata solutions using #Rstats.

New blog post: open-source software packages have surprising problems with the way they calculate weighted medians and other quantiles. www.practicalsignificance.com/posts/weight... #rstats #julialang

Data scientists perform last rites for ‘dearly departed datasets’ in 2nd Trump administration Thank you @mikeysid.bsky.social for covering the loss of public data. apnews.com/article/cens...

Sooo Michigan Hoops might be as good as advertised this year? 😳

@tschepis.bsky.social, Philip Veliz, @bradytwest.bsky.social, Jason A. Ford, and Sean Esteban McCabe used national survey data to identify motive classes for nonmedical tranquilizer use among US teens & young adults and explored links to other substance use and mental health outcomes myumi.ch/XykGZ

This, by @vincentab.bsky.social, is the most straight-up *useful* book I’ve bought in a long while.

Roderick Little contributed Pattern-Mixture Models for Missing Data to the JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods. In the essay, Little discusses the advantages and limitations of pattern-mixture models which allow the predictive distribution of missing variables myumi.ch/bVwZk

Mark your calendar for next week's free, online half-day PDHP Workshop with @alussier.bsky.social: demonstrating the Structured Life Course Modelling Approach (SLCMA) applied to High Dimensional Data. Register at psc.isr.umich.edu/events/pdhp-...

This has been a very disappointing meltdown by all three phases for the Lions. Just a lot of bad football this weekend. 👎 But nice to see JJ have a solid game.

This is big if true…

The target population for the research question is the population of people who would satisfy the eligibility criteria. “ Wrong x 2 1) The eligibility criteria define who doesn’t come into the trial not who does. 2) We generalise from quite different trials to populations eg bioequivalence trials.

I would encourage you to at least read the Executive Summary of this excellent report. 💯

🎉 @rpsychologist.com 's PowerLMM.js is the online statistics application of the year 2025 🎉 powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com - Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models - Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters - Fast! (Instant results)

Ever wondered how to get better survey feedback from respondents? 🧐 👉 Check out our new @jssam.bsky.social paper together with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social testing different (1) visual designs and (2) answer formats of #FinalCommentQuestions. 🌐 academic.oup.com/jssam/advanc...

More important computational science that may not happen because it mentions diversity and inclusion. Fun times…and yes, definitely worth a donation if you are a Python user.

📘 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝙎𝙪𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙮 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝙈𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙙𝙨: “Survey Climate and Trust in Scientific Surveys.” Explore how the relationship between surveys and society has evolved. 🔗 Read the 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 here: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/issue/vi... #SurveyResearch #SurveyMethods #SurveyClimate #ESRA

This game is setting football back a bit. 😂🤨 But Jimmy MFin Rolder came to drink milk and kick ass. And the milk is gone.

All Michigan had to do was execute and not make this a dogfight. Congrats, you now have a dogfight. 🙄 Get your shxt together.

A reminder that I will be giving this webinar today as part of ICPSR’s #SBECCC. This is the first time that I’ll be introducing this work, which we believe has great potential to improve the quality of imputations in a variety of settings. Would love to hear thoughts! Link below.

This Lions defense is redefining what “next man up” means tonight. What an effort! #FDTF

Micha Fischer, Roderick Little & @bradytwest.bsky.social investigate multiple imputation under missing not at random assumptions w/response indicators as covariates, finding in MNAR data scenarios, methods including RIs can improve performance for both analytic & descriptive inference myumi.ch/n19nk

Yes. And this is 100% on the coaching staff. Game 7. Play your best players. Otherwise you are going to lose what by all accounts is a pretty big fan base.

How does Zvada go from the best kicker in the B1G to the worst in the course of one season? Utterly mystifying. 🙄

Catch the ball man. C’mon. This is Game 7. Entire team not mentally locked in. Hill, Marshall, Morgan…team-wide issue.

UM Board of Regents has honored Kenneth M. Langa with a Distinguished University Professorship. His research shapes our understanding of #aging, #CognitiveImpairment & #dementia. He is co-director of the NIH-funded #HealthAndRetirementStudy, the largest, most influential study of aging in the U.S.

Same. The tech still needs some development.

Shira is summarizing a new general approach to the analysis of survey data that I’ve been working on with @yajuansi.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social. We’d welcome feedback!

@bradytwest.bsky.social @drjasonbrinkley.bsky.social @asa-scipol.bsky.social @aapor.bsky.social @clairemkbowen.bsky.social @csmarcum.bsky.social @nickhartphd.bsky.social Lots of our #srms colleagues got RIFd last week. I wrote to get them reinstated. #statssky #CDC #defenddata

Interesting paper on using the outcome to impute predictor variables www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 Who is willing to participate in video-based web surveys? 🎥 👉 Especially younger, male, and extraverted respondents as well as those with high survey interest. Check out our new #OpenAccess paper with #tlenzner @jkhoehne.bsky.social @conradziller.bsky.social in #mda. 🌐 doi.org/10.12758/mda...

Not a shred of defense being played by any college or pro football team in this state right now. Sweet sports weekend. 👎🙄😤

Just the kind of game that makes you question whether Michigan Football has the right leadership in place. Brutal game plan, failing at fundamentals, dumb penalties…even worse that this was in prime time. Gotta right the ship next week, but UW is good. Guess we’ll see what they put together.

Nope, not even close.

Uhhhh…the Michigan defense looks terrible top to bottom? Get it together. 🙄🤬

Someone needs to get Wink some smelling salts…wake up and adjust to what is going on with the screen game plez thanks

I really hope that this game doesn’t run into the USC game. 😬

TROY MF’ING MELTON Stud!

The decision to play Keith and Meadows today was…not great. Two auto-outs. I like Hinch as a manager, but this was a brutal decision.

let Skubal hit

Some more shiny apps for the classroom -- here looking at different approaches to pooling information across groups (e.g., partial pooling), and how the group level predictions shift with changes in amount of data used for fitting. charlesdriver.shinyapps.io/Pooling_Info...

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Crazy 😂

These Tigers aren’t dead just yet! #gritty

A fantastic new issue of the Statistical Journal of the IAOS that focuses on the production and use of gender statistics: journals.sagepub.com/toc/sjib/41/... The U.S. government may refuse to think that this is important or worthy of funding, but high-quality research in this area continues.

Jahmyr Gibbs is an absolute beast. My goodness. 💪

This was beyond brutal. Gotta hope there is improvement this series…

Oh man what a game. The Tigers really grinded that out. Props.

Tigers-Mariners is just maximum intensity right now 😐