Who makes the most highly rated movies?
Working with the IMDB data, we can also have another look at who makes the best movies. I previously examined this using the best foreign film category from the American…
Recency bias in IMDB ratings
In 2024 I wrote a post showing this plot (well, a similar one): The pattern is that newer movies have been getting progressively lower rated. Now there can be some…
Climate science and conspiracy theories
Joe Duarte (of Political Diversity Will Improve Social Psychological Science fame) has been complaining about some climate science denial/skepticism being linked to conspiracy theories study for years. He posted a…
Bryan Pesta tells his story + the closing of HDF
Some years ago we published the world's first admixture regression studies. These were done using a series of datasets starting with the relatively small PING, then moving on to PNC/TCP,…