Brett Keller
Roving data guy, occasional musician. Job: @PSIimpact. Alum of @WilsonSchool econ/policy, @JohnsHopkinsSPH global epi, @TrumanScholars. Opinions/views = mine.
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Hiding in the Grass: Fear and Confusion as Fighters Overran a U.S. Airfield
The brazen Shabab assault at Manda Bay, Kenya, a sleepy seaside base near the Somali border, on Jan. 5 left three Americans dead, raising complex questions about the military’s mission in Africa.
Boda Boda Madness
Ugandan-Kenyan fashion designer Bobbin Case and Dutch artist Jan Hoek have collaborated on a project called Boda Boda Madness.
Panel Convinced Bounty Induced Ray to Kill King
HR Assassinations Com reptdly will conclude that James Earl Ray killed King for money; sources say money amtd to $50,000 that Ray never collected from right-wing St Louis businessman John H Sutherland, who wanted King slain; com is expected to...
Why Americans Supported Prohibition 100 Years Ago
Temperance crusaders weren’t crackpots. They were fighting the business of making money off addiction.
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Opinion | Why Americans Supported Prohibition 100 Years Ago
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How to Track President Trump
Smartphones leave a trail that anyone — and any foreign government — could follow.
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this is extraordinary >> How to Track President Trump buff.ly/36Vbnjw pic.twitter.com/z0HjvB2QCj
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I assure you, medieval people bathed.
I can’t believe I have to write this down right now, but my dear friends, medieval people bathed regularly. Yes. I assure you. I am very serious. It is true. In fact, medieval people loved a bath a…
No, I don’t think that this study offers good evidence that installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits. « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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No, I don’t think that this study offers good evidence that installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits. « Andrew Gelman
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How to get out of the credulity rut (regression discontinuity edition): Getting beyond whack-a-mole « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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How to get out of the credulity rut (regression discontinuity edition): Getting beyond whack-a-mole « Andrew Gelman
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Mogadishu Bombing Took the Lives of the ‘Best and the Brightest’
Despite a growing sense of stability and optimism, after decades of chaos and violence, Somalia has been unable to curb the threat posed by the terrorist group Al Shabab.
WHO essential medicines for reproductive health
Since 1977, the WHO’s Model List of Essential Medicines has been a rigorous evidence-based document providing a list of essential and life-saving medicines. Specifically, over the course of the last few decades, a large body of scientific evidence...
5-HTTLPR: A Pointed Review
In 1996, some researchers discovered that depressed people often had an unusual version of the serotonin transporter gene 5-HTTLPR. The study became a psychiatric sensation, getting thousands of ci…
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"The problem is more like “you can get an entire field with hundreds of studies analyzing the behavior of something that doesn’t exist”." >> 5-HTTLPR: A Pointed Review
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Anguish and Anger From the Navy SEALS Who Turned In Edward Gallagher
Video interviews and group texts obtained by The Times show men describing their platoon leader in grim terms.
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so disgraceful that this war criminal is free >> Anguish and Anger From the Navy SEALs Who Turned In Edward Gallagher
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More Confounders
[Epistemic status: Somewhat confident in the medical analysis, a little out of my depth discussing the statistics] For years, we’ve been warning patients that their sleeping pills could kill …
Comparing meta-analyses and preregistered multiple-laboratory replication projects
Kvarven, Strømland and Johannesson compare meta-analyses to multiple-laboratory replication projects and find that meta-analyses overestimate effect sizes by a factor of almost three. Commonly used methods of adjusting for publication bias do not...
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ugh, I'm gonna have to update my tattoo >> Comparing meta-analyses and preregistered multiple-laboratory replication projects
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Black Lives Matter's first science fiction film
The only stormtrooper we see without his mask is John Boyega, leading us to imagine that the rest of them are black – and the film is an Afrofuturist parable Warning: spoilers
Causal inference, adjusting for 300 pre-treatment predictors « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Causal inference, adjusting for 300 pre-treatment predictors « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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