Unlike MIT, Scientific American does the right thing and flags an inaccurate and irresponsible article that they mistakenly published. Here’s the story: — Andrew Gelman

How to lie with statistics*. But what happens when you get caught out? Depends.

A more accurate story would state very clearly that (a) the Stanford paper had serious statistical errors, (b) the critics were correct, and (c) the scientific criticisms of that paper had nothing to do with its sixteenth author. Then they could go to town on the whole politics thing,

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Unlike MIT, Scientific American does the right thing and flags an inaccurate and irresponsible article that they mistakenly published. Here’s the story:
Andrew Gelman | Professor of Statistics and Political Science and Director of the Applied Statistics Center, Columbia University

* The title of a famous book by Darrell Huff published in 1954. It was required reading in my intro to stats course in 1958.