Super story to illustrate very clever use of technology and modeling - sadly, to defraud. wired.com/2017/02/russia…

Just loving this massive portrait at Bengaluru Airport made entirely from dice to commemorate the life of the famous Indian Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.

If you wanted some real case-studies on monitoring interviewers in challenging situations. Also contains a fair bit on detecting falsification.

Congratulations to Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science 2019 graduates: Chen Chen, M.S., Ang Li, M.S., Wenshan, M.S., Felicitas Mittereder, Ph.D., and Sharan Sharma, Ph.D. Sharan Sharma @FelicitasMitte U-M ISR

Some of the TV panels discussing exit polls are larger than the sample size :D

Sharan Sharma & Michael Elliott develop a method of detecting survey falsification. The method uses multilevel models & they illustrate its use in a panel survey in India measuring TV ratings bit.ly/33VPz5Q

📜Paper alert: bit.ly/3UPAEqc Sharan Sharma Sonalde Desai Debasis Barik & Om Prakash Sharma use NCAER IHDS Corner data to understand omitted births in fertility histories—conclude they are 'non-ignorable' & non-random; estimate prevalence at 4%; & discuss its predictors.

From a true teacher : न मया क्रियते शिष्यः कृतः शिष्यो न कश्चन। शिष्यतामिच्छते सद्यो दीयते गुरूता मया॥ - श्री रामेश्वर: झा

Essence: I don’t take anyone as a disciple; never did. Those who want to be my students, I simply make them masters.

Careful while reading the output from 'summary' in #rstats. ?summary: summary(object, ..., digits = max(3, getOption("digits")-3))

Heartening to see #Sanskrit like this. Lovely way to keep ancient literature "by heart": timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/no…

Oh man. #Israel

link: livemint.com/Politics/5JBm1…

Wish to propose a weighted version of the "Bullshit Asymmetry Principle", where weights = "importance of perpetrator" (1/2)

(2/2) i.e. despite energy drain, may be publicly valuable to call out BS emanating from a celebrity vs. arguing online with 'agentsky9991'.

Nice preface in #Statistics (Freedman, Pisani, and Purves, 1998). But a bit surprised at the highlighted phrase.

Dear Nature, Nice jitter. Sincerely, Sharan #SeeingScatterPlotsEverywhere #Statistics

Q: Why should I not trust quarterly numbers from the Central Statistical Organization (CSO)? A: Because my dad founded CSO. #StrongReasoning indianexpress.com/article/india/…

Love it when technical books are interspersed with humor. This is from: "Measurement Error in Nonlinear Models", Carroll, Rupert, and Stefanski (2006). #Statistics

Apparently, a few decades ago some grant reviewers didn't like the concept of using behavior coding for question evaluation. Slide 7 in this ppt: bit.ly/FowlerCoding #SurveyMethodology