Special Journal Issue on Fabrication in Survey Research

The Statistical Journal of the IAOS has just released a new issue with a bunch of articles on fabrication in survey research, a subject of great interest for the blog. Unfortunately, most of the articles are behind a paywall but, thankfully, the overview by Steve Koczela and Fritz Scheuren is open access.  It's a beautiful piece …

Dispute Resolution by Mutual Maiming

I'm puzzled by the following sequence of events.  (This story has a very clear summary.) The UN issues a report entitled "Children and Armed Conflict".  The report highlights quite a few groups for committing grave abuses against children.  The "Saudi Arabia-led Coalition"  in the war in Yemen is on this UN blacklist.  The report fingers …

Check out my New Article at STATS.org

Hello everybody. Please have a look at this new article that has just gone up on STATS.org. It is a compact exposition of the evidence of fabrication in public opinion surveys in Iraq as well as the threats and debates flowing from this evidence. My current plan for the blog is to do one follow …

Censorship and Self-Censorship in Research on the Iraq War

I just set up a web page on the title theme for this post. There you will find my paper "Censorship and Self-Censorship in Research on the Iraq War."  It is short but if you only have five minutes to spare then just read the slides from the presentation I  made yesterday at the conference of the …