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Stuart Ritchie

@stuartjritchie.bsky.social
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 24/07/2025
Just finished listening to this great episode by @stuartjritchie.bsky.social and @tomchivers.bsky.social on whether early-onset cancer rates are really up. Can highly recommend—it’s not only a relevant topic, but also a great exercise in the care that’s needed when somebody gives you a number.
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Episode 79: Cancer rates
Listen now | Next week: Taurus rates
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Mike Bird @birdyword.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Huge job here for someone - Anthropic is hiring an econ-focused writer to work on @stuartjritchie.bsky.social's team boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jo...
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Editorial, Economic and Societal Impacts
Dublin, IE | London, UK
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Writers and researchers working on economics, science and AI - Anthropic are advertising for a writer! And you get to work with @stuartjritchie.bsky.social boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jo...
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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · 01/03/2025
Posting this here because it seems like a great job people should see, working for @stuartjritchie.bsky.social at Anthropic. If you’re a brilliant writer on economics and society and want to help the world understand AI better, consider applying. boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jo...
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Brian Clegg @brianclegg.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
How the excellent The Studies Show podcast ( @tomchivers.bsky.social and @stuartjritchie.bsky.social ) surprised me by introducing me to the fiendish collider bias: brianclegg.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-... #Statistics #badcorrelations
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The unnerving nature of collider bias
Not for the first time, I was inspired by listening to the excellent The Studies Show podcast . In their 26 November edition, Tom Chivers an...
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
An ENTIRE podcast on collider bias 🤓🎉 - love it! Here is our take for gene x evironment studies! Can’t wait to listen! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Gene-environment dependencies lead to collider bias in models with polygenic scores - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Gene-environment dependencies lead to collider bias in models with polygenic scores
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Lavinia Paternoster @lpaternoster.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
In response to the final few seconds in this podcast, that CB is something to be aware of but really hard to actually DO anything about. Here’s our suggestions in the genetic epidemiology context: journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
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Strategies to investigate and mitigate collider bias in genetic and Mendelian randomisation studies of disease progression
Genetic studies of disease progression can be used to identify factors that may influence survival or prognosis, which may differ from factors that influence on disease susceptibility. Studies of dise...
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Nico Trajtenberg 🐝 @nicotrajtenberg.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Indeed, great episode by @tomchivers.bsky.social & @stuartjritchie.bsky.social on collider bias & for criminologists worth checking this research note pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Taking the problem of colliders seriously in the study of crime: A research note
We provide a brief overview of collider bias and its implications for criminological research. Owing to the nature of the topics studied, as well as the common data sources used to carry out much of t...
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Stuart Ritchie @stuartjritchie.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Some said it couldn’t be done. That it was impossible; ridiculous; absurd. But @tomchivers.bsky.social and I have done it: recorded a whole podcast episode about collider bias. www.thestudiesshowpod.com/p/episode-57...
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Episode 57: Collider bias
Listen now | Does smoking prevent COVID? Is being obese actually healthy? Or is something funny going on?
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Stuart Ritchie @stuartjritchie.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Some said it couldn’t be done. That it was impossible; ridiculous; absurd. But @tomchivers.bsky.social and I have done it: recorded a whole podcast episode about collider bias. www.thestudiesshowpod.com/p/episode-57...
thestudiesshowpod.com
Episode 57: Collider bias
Listen now | Does smoking prevent COVID? Is being obese actually healthy? Or is something funny going on?
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Tom Chivers @tomchivers.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The latest The Studies Show is in your inboxes! On a strange statistical anomaly that can make it seem like smoking protects you from COVID and obesity is good for your heart www.thestudiesshowpod.com/p/episode-57...
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Episode 57: Collider bias
Listen now | Does smoking prevent COVID? Is being obese actually healthy? Or is something funny going on?
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Stian Westlake @stianwestlake.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
When John Kingman - who has done more to drive good policy on UK economic growth than anyone - gives advice, I really hope people listen. open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/w...
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We going to need a bigger Bazooka
How Labour can get the economy growing
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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The Economist claims many UK and US (not shown) masters degrees have negative financial returns (especially for men) by the age of 35 www.economist.com/leaders/2024...
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Stuart Ritchie @stuartjritchie.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Depressed, but not actually surprised, to see that Morrissey is now singing in front of slide shows of “Puppetmaster” Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci 😖😩
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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 22/11/2024
Love this podcast! Good banter, mediocre science.
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Stuart Ritchie @stuartjritchie.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This is the kind of echo-chamber slop I was hoping NOT to see on this platform!
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Stuart Ritchie @stuartjritchie.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This is such a silly straw man, and Carl (and everyone reposting this) should know better. The argument is that *to the greatest extent possible, science should not be political*. Everyone agrees that it IS political, but that’s bad! We should make it less so.
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Tom Chivers @tomchivers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
For those who don't know: @stuartjritchie.bsky.social and I run a science-based podcast called The Studies Show! Our latest episode is on RFK Jr and water fluoridation www.thestudiesshowpod.com/p/episode-56... but we've got about 70 episodes now: check them out here www.thestudiesshowpod.com/archive
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Episode 56: Water fluoridation and dentistry
Listen now | Please listen to this podcast at 2:30 (tooth-hurty)
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Stuart Ritchie @stuartjritchie.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Absolutely love a good bad book review, and this one is hilarious. Jordan Peterson’s new book sounds absolutely dreadful, and maybe even a little psychotic…? www.thetimes.com/article/413d...
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We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson review — rambling, hectoring and mad
The conservative polemicist’s new book is a bizarre study of the Bible featuring Jiminy Cricket, Harry Potter and Tinkerbell the porn fairy
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Works in Progress @worksinprogress.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Works in Progress is on Bluesky! 🥳 Find our team & authors in this starter pack:
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Stuart Ritchie @stuartjritchie.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
In case you didn’t know, I’ve been doing these monthly Substack link posts about bad science (fraud, the replication crisis, bias in science, dodgy journals, all that stuff). Feel free to subscribe, or to send me links to include in the next one! www.sciencefictions.org/p/science-fi...
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Science Fictions links for October 2024
Including a good scientific report about the bad scientific reports published in Scientific Reports
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James Fern @jamesfern.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Great example of bias and hype in scientific reporting and media coverage, thanks for highlighting @nbtiller.bsky.social Good chapter with lots of other examples of this in 'Science Fictions', by @stuartjritchie.bsky.social
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Stuart Ritchie @stuartjritchie.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A question inspired by this brilliant article by @engber.bsky.social: does anyone know ANY psychology research done at a business school that’s (a) good and (b) important? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.
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