Naomi Harvey and colleagues at and around the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University are collecting opinions about bunny cuteness. They invite anyone who has such opinions to take their Rabbit Facial Features Survey: The aim of this study is to assess people’s preference for rabbit facial features, to help us gain an understanding […]
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Extensions of Differences in Differences (statistics) 1985 – 2011
The Difference-in-Differences (DiD) statistical method has now been in use for almost 30 years. see: ‘Using the Longitudinal Structure of Earnings to Estimate the Effect of Training Programs‘ by Orley Ashenfelter; David Card, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 67, No. 4. (Nov., 1985), pp. 648-660. (page 5 in the .pdf). And the Difference-in-Differences […]
Personifications of Death and Death Anxiety Survey
A look back at yet another presumably surprising discovery: “Personifications of Death and Death Anxiety,” Richard Lonetto, Journal of Personality Assessment, vol. 46, no. 4, 1982. The author, at the University of Guelph, explains: “University students, graduate nursing students, and funeral service students completed Templer’s Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) and a Death Personification Exercise (DPE). […]
From the mouths of babes: An existential statistic [British]
The UK’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey includes a variable called “resbby — Whether respondent is baby“. The July-September 2011 survey reports that the value of this variable is YES for 228 of the 105488 respondents. Here is the pertinent detail from that report: Here is that same detail, this time including the full graph: A year later, […]