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This blog is about people, technology, and inference — sometimes as part of the design and evaluation of new interactions, interventions, and techniques.

Dean Eckles is a social scientist, statistician, and faculty at MIT. Depending on the post you're reading, he may have been at Facebook, Stanford, or Nokia at the time. The views here are his own, not those of any organization. See his disclosures.

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Arjan Haring on Is thinking about monetization a waste of our best minds?
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Dean Eckles on Using covariates to increase the precision of randomized experiments
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A.Lizard (@alizardx) on It’s better for older workers to go a little fast: DocSend in Snow Crash

Recent Posts

New research on social media during the 2020 election, and my predictions
Does the “Table 1 fallacy” apply if it is Table S1 instead?
Marshaling the black ants: Practical knowledge in a small village in Malaysia
Selecting effective means to any end
Is thinking about monetization a waste of our best minds?
Total war, and armaments as “superior goods”
Using covariates to increase the precision of randomized experiments
Adjusting biased samples
It’s better for older workers to go a little fast: DocSend in Snow Crash
Exploratory data analysis: Our free online course
Interpreting discrete-choice models
Do what the virtuous person would do?

Links

Dean Eckles @ github
Dean Eckles @ MIT Sloan
MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy
MIT Sloan Marketing Seminar
My posts at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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