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Reviewer notes: In a randomized experiment, the pre-post differences are not effect estimates Reviewer notes are a new short format with brief explanations of basic ideas that might come in handy during (for example) the peer-review process. They are a great way to keep Julia from writing 10,0...

P.S. Pre-post differences are *not* valid treatment effect estimates. Why? Here's a post by @statsepi.bsky.social: statsepi.substack.com/p/one-simple..., here's a post by me: www.the100.ci/2025/01/22/r... >

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Interpreting Confidence Intervals Interactive visualization of confidence intervals

#stats Here's a nifty interactive demo of confidence intervals by
Kristoffer Magnusson

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Last night @spspnews.bsky.social celebrated the accomplishments of @afhayes.bsky.social, awarding him the Methodological Innovator Award. It was incredibly moving to see methods development celebrated at #SPSP2026. Congratulations Andy!

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Some times you have to make work a game. And today that game was called “Delete 20 words per paragraph in your paper”. I genuinely did not think I could do this, but it made the whole paper much tighter.

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Yes, I agree it shouldn't be required. Both because it could incentivize poor behavior, and the invitations are not ubiquitous. I think we should also consider broadening the reviewer base (don't just always invite the most famous scholar in topic A)

This is great! Much more articulate than my tiny post

Wow, that's even more frustrating that they offered but didn't honor the system

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Yeah it’s tricky because students are often not asked. But they do submit. Just had a convo with a grad student about this issue this week where they want review experience but don’t get asked.

I would love to see journals with APCs offer discounts for completing reviews. 2-3 reviews = one free submission.

I like the idea of a paper karma system. When you get two reviews on a paper, accept two reviews. I used to do this more closely and I’ve lost track but I’m consider returning because I feel similarly overwhelmed.

I think you’re contractually obligated to say that.

Too glib for my regression class, do you think?

a man says " now she 's drunk on power " ALT: a man says " now she 's drunk on power "

Today I merged branches in the correct direction on my first try, perhaps for the first time in my life. #github

Glad I could help!

Should I allow my direct effect to be moderated? A Blog Companion to “How Does Model (Mis)Specification Impact Statistical Power, Type I Error Rate, and Parameter Bias in Moderated Mediation” by Jessica L. Fossum, Amanda Kay Montoya, and Samantha An...

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