A recent paper in Psych Science (.pdf) reports a failure to replicate the study that inspired a TED Talk that has been seen 25 million times. [1] The talk invited viewers to do better in life by assuming high-power poses, just like Wonder Woman's …
When considering any statistical tool I think it is useful to answer the following two practical questions: 1. "Does it give reasonable answers in realistic circumstances?" and 2. "Does it answer a question I am interested in?" In this post I explain …
I read this post over at the blog Cartesian Faith about Probability and Monte Carlo methods. The post describe how to numerically intregate using Monte Carlo methods. I thought the results looked cool so I used the method to calculate the overlap of …