I asked my students to vote between frequentist and Bayesian statistics today in class. I put a third option — more to shame students in a tongue-in-cheek way for not participating — called "I hate democracy." Bayesianism lost to "I hate democracy."

New paper in Theory and Decision 🎉 We document a digit effect in risk perception. When comparing 0.01% vs. 0.05%, people overweight the digit (1 vs. 5) more than the actual scale difference: tinyurl.com/ye3j5y6h

www.debtinperspective.com I love this breakdown of the national debt/deficit in relation to the DOGE cuts!

Almost done switching 100% to Firefox over Chrome thanks to this bad boy. Big hats off to the researchers: misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/goog...

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My lab just published an article suggesting that attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccines may have "spilled over" to other, unrelated vaccines along party lines: misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/atti...

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