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See also Gelman: the plagiarism is bad enough, but lifting another author's respondents' quotes from their paper and attributing them to your own Rs is data falsification. statmodeling.substack.com/p/cambridge-...

Cambridge University fraud scandal reminds me of Theranos.It's not just plagiarism, it's fraud.statmodeling.substack.com

Yes, the link between your major and your jobs later in life is very weak in the US. Even in the "pre-professional" majors like engineering.

Maybe the logic is: Michigan voters went for Trump who killed the EV incentives which reduced demand for EV which made auto manufacturers double-down on gas-guzzling pickups and SUVs. Squint hard enough and I'm sure one can find a way to blame women.

Yup, a good man. When he was governor, he often stayed at our house when he came to Fbx. He said, only half joking, that it was so that no one on either side of the aisle could track him down. I was just a kid, but he remembered me a decade later when he sat at one of my tables at a restaurant.

Apparently elite distance runners can run 600 miles in 6 days; the men's record is 650 miles in 6 days. They can also run 30 marathons in 35 days, although maybe not w/ a fractured leg. I can run 1 marathon in 35 years, which is pretty much the same thing, right?

Correction: 600 miles in 6 days (later changed to 12 days), and, separately, 30 marathons in 35 days. Per the Guardian.

Stunning photos, thanks for posting.

Given our respective employment histories, this is rather funny. Anyhow, my comparison was partly word play: Arday ran [or claims to have run, depending on who you ask] 600 miles in 30 consecutive days, the last bit with a fractured leg. Not that this is relevant to, well, anything.

There is also an interesting parallel to another young, darling-of-the-popular-media sociologist who had a fondness for being on the run.

Same ”accident” happened in Alaska. So odd that this keeps happening in MAGA-governed states where the Democratic senatorial candidate is leading the Republican candidate in polls.

My SIL, a HS foreign language teacher, was laid off because a cash-strapped administrator decided that Duolingo was good enough. Even if they won't admit it, someone in Harvard's administration is probably using similar logic with ChatGPT. (And has a very different definition of "cash-strapped.")

I've started to notice every sentence with a "not x but y" structure or its variants.

congratulations!

Odysseus eventually gets to Ithaca. American Airlines only gets you as far as Syracuse.

A lot of people also assume that selling 1M copies of an academic book will make the author rich. Yeah, it may increase her royalty check from five digits to the low sevens, but that includes the digits after the decimal point.

He won't be happy until he's turned the BLT into mayonnaise on toast.

Well, I certainly wouldn't recommend running for mayor of NYC.

Reminds me of my dad's response when I asked him how well his new book was doing. "Sales are great! Half the first printing sold in the first month, and I just bought the other 20 copies."

A bit of related trivia: In the early 20th C, all young men at Cornell with the last name of "White" were called "Andy" in honor of Andrew Dickson White. E.B. White was one of them. He went by "Andy" for the rest of his life, perhaps b/c his other option was "Elwyn."

A local example of (1): The descendants of Ezra Cornell get a seat on Cornell's Board of Trustees. (One is there now. His name is, shockingly, Ezra Cornell.) The descendants of Cornell's co-founder Andrew Dickson White get bupkus.