Andrew Gelman has a cool discussion on thinking about p-values in data sets with large sample sizes. The discussion in the comments section is interesting as well.
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Fighting Traffic with Bad Policies
Posted on June 19, 2009 by alexbartik
In my first month in the Philippines, I planned to take a bus one weekend from Manila to Banaue. I got in the cab about an hour and 20 minutes before the bus was supposed to leave, figuring this was plenty of time to get to the bus station. I was very wrong. We ran [...]
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Getting good data
Posted on June 19, 2009 by alexbartik
I have a post up on the IPA website about why getting good data is really hard. Check it out.
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Annals of Irrationality
Posted on June 2, 2009 by alexbartik
The picture to the left is my stove. I was given it by a friend about 4 months ago, a few weeks after I arrived in the Philippines. As you might have guessed from the dust covering the stove, I have yet to use this stove. This lack of use, however, has not been caused [...]
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