Media
Mind Matters op-eds
Ransacking Data for Hidden Treasures Seldom Ends Well
Is Hot Hands Just a Basketball Myth?
Is Chloroquine Really a COVID-19 "Game Changer"?
Data Mining: A Plague, Not a Cure
Vitamin D and COVID-19: Is it Data or Noise?
Inflation is the Least of Our Worries
Election Models: Predicting the Past is Easy and Useless
Beware of Geeks Bearing Formulas
Science is More than Data Clusters
Data Mining and the Reproducibility Crisis
Why Intelligent Women Marry Less Intelligent Men
Computers' Stupidity Makes Them Dangerous
Love Math and Computers? Love Can be Blind
The World Series: What the Luck?
Stanford's AI Index Report: How Much is BS?
Your Computer is an Autistic Savant
Investors, AI Isn't Your Big Fix
Bitcoin is a Classic Bubble Investment
Serious Investors Should Embrace Stock Market Algos
The Stock Market: Gains, Pains, and Panics
Female Hurricanes: A Hot Air Zombie Study
The Stock Market Keeps Rising Despite COVID. Is it Nuts?
The Decline Effect: Most Medicines Disappoint
It’s Hard to Estimate the Highly Improbable
Cancer maps—an expensive source of phantom patterns?
The wisdom of crowds: Are crowds really wiser than individuals?
AI: Still just curve fitting, not finding a Theory of Everything
Torturing Data Can Destroy a Career: The Case of Brian Wansink
The British Medical Journal's Top Picks in Offbeat Medical Science
Steph Curry Got Red Hot—and Torched the Hot Hand Fallacy
Other op-eds
Wired: The Exaggerated Promise of Data Mining
Fast Company: Beware the AI Delusion
Fast Company: High-Tech Redlining
OZY: Mahommes & the Madden Curse
OZY: Using Facebook to Predict Crime
OZY: Think He's Perfect? He's Bound to Disappoint
Real Clear Markets: It's no Bubble
Forbes: Trump and Clinton's Unpopularity Upside
Interviews
NBC Bay Area PressHere: Torturing Data
Brian Lehrer: Standard Deviations
Silicon Valley Insider: AI Delusion
Steve Pomerantz Show: AI Delusion
VoiceAmerica Business: Investing in Your Home
VoiceAmerica Business: Value Investing
VoiceAmerica Business: AI Investing
Mind Matters re: Phantom Patterns
Steve Pomeranz: Dividend Investing
Think Adviser: Value Investing
Minnesota Public Radio: Mortgage Relief
Reviews
Science News Online: Death Waits for No One
The Motley Fool: Catchy Symbol, Stronger Stock?
The Motley Fool: The Most Admired Beat the Market
Sports Illustrated: That Old Black Magic
Forbes: Your Castle's P/E Ratio
MoneyCentral: Follow the Pendulum to Avoid the Pits
New York Times: New Math on Homes
New York Times: Calculating What To Pay for a Home
New York Times: Assess Your Area’s Real Estate Bubble
Patt Morrison: Celebrity Deaths
Patt Morrison: Statistics Mythbuster
ING/Datatech: Data Mining absurde resultater
Popular Science review of AI Delusion
Modern Machine Shop Review of AI Delusion
SF2 Concatenation review of AI Delusion
City Journal review of AI Delusion
Floris iL review of AI Delusion
New York Times review of Money Machine
Economist article on clever tickers
CNBC article on clever tickers
Kirkus Starred Review: Standard Deviations
Kirkus Starred Review: What the Luck?
LA Weekly Review of Standard Deviations
Dual Momentum review of Standard Deviations
MathTango review of Standard Deviations
Scientific American article on survivor bias
Cosmos review of Standard Deviations
Wired UK article on massaging statistics
Huffington Post review of Standard Deviations
Keith Law: review of Standard Deviations
BookBag review of Standard Deviations
FifthEstate review of Standard Deviations
Quantamize Book of the Week: Standard Deviations
BusinessWeek: Your Home By the Numbers
Business Week: A Home Buyer's Froth Detector
BankRate.com: How to Calculate a Home's Value
Los Angeles Times: Houseonomics book review
Los Angeles Times: Should You Buy a Home Now?
MarketWatch: Tips for Homebuyers
Chicago Tribune: Pick Your Spots When Remodeling
Daily Star: Robots Thinking Like Humans
Telegraph: Overblown Claims, PR Stunts, and Dumb AI
Phantom Patterns selected by David Auerbach as one of the top books of 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek on Steph Curry's 105-shot streak