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Written by Andi Fugard on 2025-01-26 at 13:43

I have a csv dataset and a word doc code book. I could easily reshape the code book by hand into something easier to read, e.g., another csv spec of variable names, labels, and factor levels. Is there a robust #rstats package that takes such a code book and fixes up factor levels etc in a data frame?

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Written by Andi Fugard on 2025-01-26 at 11:36

Is there any point in therapy if behaviour is “unavoidably determined”?

(Yes.) The quickest of sketches of a reply to Shedler (2022): https://andifugard.info/shedler-free-will/

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Written by Andi Fugard on 2025-01-25 at 15:35

One week to apply for the senior researcher role in the Quantitative Impact Evaluation (QIE) Hub at Verian Group UK. Hybrid working, two days/week in the Westminster office a short stroll from Parliament. Worth a look if you are into RCTs/QEDs and #RStats

https://careers.veriangroup.com/job/Senior-Research-Executive-Quantitative-Impact-Evaluation/1142120855/ #London

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Written by Andi Fugard on 2025-01-23 at 22:55

A brief blog post from 2009 on a paper by Sara Ryan and Ulla Räisänen [“It’s like you are just a spectator in this thing”: Experiencing social life the “aspie” way. Emotion, Space and Society, 2008, 1, 135-143]

https://andifugard.info/its-like-you-are-just-a-spectator-in-this-thing/

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Written by Andi Fugard on 2025-01-19 at 14:34

The literal translation of RedNote's Chinese name, Xiaohongshu (小红书) is "Little Red Book", like the Chairman Mao text. LOL

Hat-tip: @danizmnx

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c983lr756xwo

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Written by Andi Fugard on 2025-01-19 at 12:14

Always a fan of a counterfactual, I thought I’d give this thought experiment a try: If LLMs were around when I was an academic, how would I have advised students to use them? LLMs weren’t in widespread use about a hundred (four) years ago when I was teaching, so I shall begin with three similar activities and see if I can guess how I would have responded to LLMs.

https://andifugard.info/responding-to-students-who-use-llms-to-write-coursework/

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Written by Andi Fugard on 2025-01-19 at 10:55

Not quite keeping up with the #TikTok debacle. Is this the gist? #RedNote

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Written by Andi Fugard on 2025-01-19 at 00:39

Grand Union Canal Walk Housing, #Camden #London #CamdenTown

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Written by Andi Fugard on 2025-01-18 at 11:48

Public attitudes, measured through opinion polls, aren’t causes of themselves; they’re consequences of many influences including public policy.

If you surveyed the country’s health and found high rates of illness, you wouldn’t conclude that public policy should strive to make people ill.

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Written by Andi Fugard on 2025-01-16 at 23:15

“Love, the warmth of bodies in contact, is the only mercy shown to us in the darkness. But the only union is that of the organs, and it can’t bridge over the cleavage made by speech. Yet they unite in order to produce beings to stand by them in their hopeless isolation. And the generations look coldly into each other’s eyes. If you cram a ship full to bursting with human bodies, they all freeze with loneliness.”

– Brecht, In the Jungle of Cities

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Written by Andi Fugard on 2025-01-11 at 15:23

Periodically I listen to contemporary debates in #evaluation and wonder how much progress there has been in the past fifty years. I had a look at two purposively sampled 😉 pages of Carol Weiss's (1972) classic text, Evaluation Research: https://andifugard.info/modelling-theories-of-change-a-look-at-weiss-1972/

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Written by Andi Fugard on 2025-01-11 at 12:25

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Written by Andi Fugard on 2025-01-10 at 17:52

Are there any scientists (broadly defined) who think of themselves as positivists these days? Do you? It’s common for people criticising, e.g., trialists to accuse them of positivism, but I don’t know of anyone who self-identifies as positivist.

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Written by Andi Fugard on 2025-01-10 at 09:17

Someone I hadnt heard from in years messaged me on LinkedIn to say they were sorry to see I’d deleted my Facebook.

Facebook a good way to keep in touch with people, they said.

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Written by Andi Fugard on 2025-01-09 at 08:29

That feeling when you want to see the 648 permutations of the words “evidence”, “based”, “policy”, and “making”, conjoined by space, hyphen, or just stuck together without either to make a closed compound word.

Any ideas for making the code prettier...?

[#]RStats

https://inductivestep.github.io/Random-bits-and-pieces/evidence_based_enum.nb.html

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Written by Andi Fugard on 2025-01-07 at 23:15

Austrian President "gave the green light to far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Herbert Kickl to attempt and form the new ruling coalition". [1]

FPÖ was founded by Anton Reinthaller, "an Austrian Nazi who had served as a lieutenant general in the SS" [2]

[1] https://www.euronews.com/2025/01/06/austrias-president-tasks-far-right-fpo-leader-herbert-kickl-with-forming-new-government

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/30/austria-far-right-win-global-election-freedom-party

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Written by Andi Fugard on 2025-01-07 at 23:02

This is great

Heardle Pride #587

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[#]Heardle #Pride #LGBTQ @HeardleDecades

https://pride.heardledecades.xyz

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Written by Andi Fugard on 2025-01-07 at 22:15

Britpopple #915

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[#]Britpopple #Heardle

https://britpopple.glitch.me/

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Written by Andi Fugard on 2025-01-07 at 22:11

The next platform to leave is Facebook, apparently. That'll be easy. Instagram too. WhatsApp, on the other hand... I know about four people who use Signal.

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Written by Andi Fugard on 2025-01-03 at 12:06

Great musical on at the Garrick, #London: Why Am I So Single?

It's fabulous, feminist and queer – and a pleasant surprise it’s so central and packed with audiences.

https://thegarricktheatre.co.uk/tickets/why-am-i-so-single/

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