YouTube video by SimDec - Simulation Decomposition Sensitivity analysis for dummies

What does sensitivity analysis have to do with Guido Morselli's Dissipatio Hg? Discover it by listening to this video courtesy of Mariia Kozlova:

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Surely an expensive education *by itself* increases students' wage prospects, right? Only if one believes numerical fables.

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Caveat emptor: Sensitivity of Cost–Employability Metrics Across Higher Education Models​

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The 2025 Elsevier-Stanford-Ioannidis ranking of scientists by citation-based composite indicator is just out: elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btc...

See related paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Content

Thanks to @eurofound.europa.eu for inviting me to Dublin to discuss Quantitative Storytelling; great discussion, learned a lot!
Here are the slides www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit...

Forget symbolic statehood — the world must recognize Israeli apartheid The push to recognize a Palestinian state creates the illusion of action, but delays the real remedies: sanctioning and isolating Israel's apartheid regime.

Interesting online journal, nonprofit, run by a group of Palestinian and Israeli journalists, and a great article
www.972mag.com/palestinian-...?

Energy policy-making in the European Union between past and present We use instruments from sociology of quantification to investigate a persistent paradox: the problematic technical quality of modelling studies when t…

How to 'unpack' a complex impact assessment? We utilize Brian Wynne's work from the 1980s, along with the checklist of sensitivity auditing, to examine the 2024 EU impact assessment on emissions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social

It was a pleasure to read!

Thanks to Zachary Webster Griffen
@runzach.bsky.social‬ for his review of our book
"The Politics of Modelling: Numbers Between Science and Policy"
in Acta Sociologica.

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"Why would you grow a crop that requires so many dangerous substances?"

Jeroen van der Sluijs on the pesticides needed for lily farming.

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YouTube video by Novara Media Greta Thunberg On Why Countries Ignore Gaza: 'It's Because of Racism'

Greta and Foucault in substantial agreement:

Greta on Gaza: youtube.com/shorts/nC7-F...
Foucault on racism p. 254: cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.psu.ed...

It is indeed, meaningful.

Why Calling RFK Jr. ‘Anti-Science’ Misses the Real Point His opponents are fighting a battle over facts, evidence, and truth. That’s the wrong strategy.

"Policy science, the science-and-society scholar Daniel Sarewitz wrote with his colleague Andrea Saltelli, has always been “inherently contestable, ..."

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Presenting: hypersphere or hypercube?

In beautiful Anacapri, in Villa Orlandi (University of Naples Federico II) at the summer school of the i4Driving project. See www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit...

See here/eccolo: doi.org/10.31222/osf...

sensobol: An R Package to Compute Variance-Based Sensitivity Indices by Arnald Puy, Samuele Lo Piano, Andrea Saltelli, Simon A. Levin <p>The R package sensobol provides several functions to conduct variance-based uncertainty and sensitivity analysis, from the estimation of sensitivity indices to the visual representation of the resu...

Ciao! I am following you now. There are several software available, ours is this: Puy, A., S. Lo Piano, A. Saltelli, and S. A. Levin. 2022. “Sensobol: An R Package to Compute Variance-Based Sensitivity Indices.” Journal of Statistical Software 102 (5). www.jstatsoft.org/article/view....

... and here in Oslo at ISEE presenting on demography models; a few new slides www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit...
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Presenting in Genoa about global sensitivity analysis and multiverse analysis - Thanks to the Italian Statistical Society for inviting!

Program: sis2025.sis-statistica.it/wp-content/u...

My slides

www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit...

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Coming to Italy? One suggestion: don't fly ITA (ex Alitalia) 😩

Technology works as skyscrapers stand and airplanes don't fall from the skies, right? Depends upon the ideology of builder.

A Dreamliners That Gave a Boeing Manager Nightmares Just Crashed url:https://prospect.org/economy/2025-06-12-dreamliner-gave-boeing-manager-nightmares-just-crashed-air-india/?

Disappointed about results in Poland? Time to read:

Kuc-Czarnecka, Saltelli, Olczyk, Reinert. 2021. “The Opening of Central and Eastern European Countries to Free Trade: A Critical Assessment.” Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.
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Good piece by John P. A. Ioannidis and Michaéla C. Schippers

Very polite even when critical; they talk about high-impact journals whose editorial can be 'imbued with unchecked biases' ...

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@overleaf.com Is Overleaf down?

In recognition of Funtowicz and Ravetz’s collaborative contributions to Futures Download Citation | On Apr 1, 2025, Chris Groves and others published In recognition of Funtowicz and Ravetz’s collaborative contributions to Futures | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

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"... the radical character of [Feyerabend's] proposal ... three elements—the theory of technocratic domination, the critique of scientific ideology, and the radical account of the free society—come together as groundwork for a theory of scientism as a composite social pathology"

Me presenting ...

Cheers from SAMO! Here some slides: www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit... @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social

SAMO poster

This week happy to be in Grenoble at the 11th sensitivity analysis of model output (SAMO) conference.

Need a visa for the UK? If you do it online beware predatory sites that charge ~€90. Make sure you do it on GOV.UK where it will cost ~€20. Have a jpg/jpeg copy of passport and a photo ready 🥸.

Saltelli, Andrea, Lieke A. Melsen, and Arnald Puy. 2025. ‘Digital Twins of the Earth Between Vision and Fiction’. Minerva. doi: 10.1007/s11024-025-09581-3. Open access.
How one can question if a model is fair? A critique of the projects for digital twins of the earth

Interesting seminar on responsible modelling in Aachen on April 3rd, see khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/worksh...

Here some slides: www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit...