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Normal Curves: Sexy Science, Serious Statistics

Regina Nuzzo and Kristin Sainani

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Normal Curves is a podcast about sexy science & serious statistics. Ever try to make sense of a scientific study and the numbers behind it? Listen in to a lively conversation between two stats-savvy friends who break it all down with humor and clarity. Professors Regina Nuzzo of Gallaudet University and Kristin Sainani of Stanford University discuss academic papers journal club-style — except with more fun, less jargon, and some irreverent, PG-13 content sprinkled in. Join Kristin and Regina ...
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Data Skeptic

Kyle Polich

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The Data Skeptic Podcast features interviews and discussion of topics related to data science, statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and the like, all from the perspective of applying critical thinking and the scientific method to evaluate the veracity of claims and efficacy of approaches.
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Statistics Made Simple

Brad R. Fulton, PhD

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This podcast introduces the statistical methods used to analyze data about society with an emphasis on applying those methods. This podcast will help you to be a more informed and critical reader of academic research, public opinion polling, and advertisement claims that present statistical evidence. Lecture slides and course material can be obtained by emailing [email protected]
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Quantitude

Greg Hancock & Patrick Curran

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A podcast dedicated to all things quantitative, ranging from the relevant to the highly irrelevant. Co-hosts Patrick Curran and Greg Hancock talk about serious statistical topics, but without taking themselves too seriously. Think: CarTalk hi-jacked by the two grumpy old guys from the Muppets, grousing about quantitative methods, statistics, and data analysis, all presented to you with the production value of a 6th grade school project. But in a good way.
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A podcast on statistical science and clinical trials. Explore the intricacies of Bayesian statistics and adaptive clinical trials. Uncover methods that push beyond conventional paradigms, ushering in data-driven insights that enhance trial outcomes while ensuring safety and efficacy. Join us as we dive into complex medical challenges and regulatory landscapes, offering innovative solutions tailored for pharma pioneers. Featuring expertise from industry leaders, each episode is crafted to pro ...
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Are you a researcher or data scientist / analyst / ninja? Do you want to learn Bayesian inference, stay up to date or simply want to understand what Bayesian inference is? Then this podcast is for you! You'll hear from researchers and practitioners of all fields about how they use Bayesian statistics, and how in turn YOU can apply these methods in your modeling workflow. When I started learning Bayesian methods, I really wished there were a podcast out there that could introduce me to the me ...
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Brion Hurley from Business Performance Improvement shares his takes and thoughts on a variety of topics related to process improvement (specifically Lean and Six Sigma methods), Bursts are rapid improvement activities, so this sounded like a good word to use for these short audio clips. We'll try to keep them under 10 minutes each. Have a question? Use the Spotify app to leave us a voice message, and we might pick your question for our next episode!
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Talking Statistics

Mohammad Nasir Abdullah

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Hi and Assalamualaikum, This channel is created to express my thoughts and sharing knowledge on statistics and other related thing regarding data analytics with some additional entertainment. Hope you enjoy listening to my podcast channel. Please give some feedback on your thought of my podcast. Thanks. Hope you enjoy. Wasalam. My Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-1TuFeMnZN2ZII51d5T2wQ My website : https://nasirdrive1.wixsite.com/nasir916
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Total Survey Design

Dr. Azdren Coma and Dr. Seon Yup Lee

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Total Survey Design is a podcast for explaining the complexities of survey design. This podcast serves a diverse audience, including academics, small business owners, nonprofits, industry professionals, and students. Each season features episodes covering topics from survey utility to sample sizes, and question design to total survey error. Episode content includes insightful discussions, expert interviews, and special event coverage to enhance your survey skills and understanding.
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Divorce, Healthy!

Attorney/Author Ashley-Nicole Russell

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Divorce doesn’t just affect the parents and children involved. From Co-workers and employees to friends, neighbors, and spouses, the toxic fallout of divorce and years of mismanaged conflict can touch us all, all over North Carolina and America, changing the way we approach the world. Veteran Divorce, Child Custody, & Family Law Attorney Ashley-Nicole Russell believes in a better way forward. Drawing on her personal and professional experience, Ashley-Nicole is changing the conversation arou ...
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Casual Inference

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray

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Keep it casual with the Casual Inference podcast. Your hosts Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray talk all things epidemiology, statistics, data science, causal inference, and public health. Sponsored by the American Journal of Epidemiology.
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The Dungeons, Dragons, & Psychology Podcast is a TTRPG podcast that helps collaborative storytellers build great campaigns using psychology. Each episode dives into different aspects of tabletop roleplaying games, and offers listeners (psyclithids) tricks of the trade for how to improve their own games. Your host, Robert Walker, is a longtime DM and holds a MS in I/O Psychology. He is also the author of "Session Zero: The DMG to Writing Great Campaigns in any System."
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Football Outsiders Podcast Network

Aaron Schatz, Vince Verhei

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Football Outsiders provides revolutionary, in-depth statistics you can't find anywhere else! We have new, innovative methods for analyzing skill players, offensive and defensive lines, special teams, and total team efficiency. These statistics are complete from 1984 to 2022 and will be updated weekly throughout the 2023 NFL season.
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This podcast is my attempt to learn Physics by talking about it. It is on the level of students of Engineering and basic sciences in their undergrad or higher levels of education.
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In this episode of Divorce, Healthy!, host Ashley-Nicole Russell is joined by Ashley Michael to unpack one of today’s most troubling social media trends: the so-called “divorce glow up.” From flashy Instagram posts to celebrity headlines, the idea that divorce equals a glamorous reinvention is not only misleading, but deeply harmful—especially for …
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Text us, Psyclithids What happens to an adventurer after the dragon burns their village, or when they fail to save an innocent life? In this episode, we dive deep into the psychology of defense mechanisms—the unconscious strategies people use to protect themselves from overwhelming stress—and explore how they can shape roleplay at the table. Drawin…
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After 20 years of fighting and failing to get sober using abstinence-based methods, journalist Katie Herzog found a simple, inexpensive, and effective way to take control over alcohol. Part memoir, part guidebook, Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based Method to Break Free from Alcohol (Simon and Schuster, 2025) shares Herzog’s recovery journey as…
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In this episode of "In the Interim…", Dr. Scott Berry examines the mathematical foundations and efficiency claims of the promising zone design for adaptive sample size in clinical trials. Scott unpacks the conditional power thresholds that trigger sample size increases without the need to adjust alpha, as originally presented by Mehta & Pocock. He …
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Text us, Psyclithids Do you ever feel like you’re “not good enough” to be a Dungeon Master? That pressure to run the perfect game… That voice in your head saying, “I’m a fraud”? This week on The Dungeons, Dragons, and Psychology Podcast, we dive into the psychology of impostor syndrome, why so many DMs struggle with it, and how to build real confid…
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Get early access to Alex's next live-cohort courses! Today’s clip is from episode 141 of the podcast, with Sam Witty. Alex and Sam discuss the ChiRho project, delving into the intricacies of causal inference, particularly focusing on Do-Calculus, regression discontinuity designs, and Bayesian structural causal inference. They explain ChiRho's desig…
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Text us, Psyclithids Is the bard’s silver tongue just a fun game mechanic, or does it reflect real-world psychology? In this episode of The Dungeons, Dragons, and Psychology Podcast, we explore the fascinating connection between the bard’s abilities and the science of persuasion, charisma, and social influence. We’ll break down key psychological pr…
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In this podcast, I share one of the articles I found from October 1992 about a government efficiency program at the State of Iowa, called Total Quality Government. I read through the article and share my thoughts about how it morphed into their modern improvement program. This article can be found at https://www.leansixsigmaforgood.com/new-tpm-mana…
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In this week's episode, Greg and Patrick explore the very cool yet often overlooked suite of non-parametric statistical tests. They talk about their strengths and weaknesses and how these might be profitably used in practice. Along the way they also discuss science fairs, spaghetti bridges, don't take this the wrong way, jazz hamster, the Bernoulli…
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In this episode of Data Skeptic's Recommender Systems series, host Kyle Polich interviews Dr. Kunal Mukherjee, a postdoctoral research associate at Virginia Tech, about the paper "Z-REx: Human-Interpretable GNN Explanations for Real Estate Recommendations" The discussion explores how the post-COVID real estate landscape has created a need for bette…
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Episode 30 of “In the Interim…” features Dr. Janet Wittes, Fellow of the American Statistical Association, past president of the Society of Clinical Trials, and founder of Statistics Collaborative, in discussion with Dr. Scott Berry. Dr. Wittes details her progression from Radcliffe biochemistry to Harvard statistics, shaped by targeted mentorship …
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P-values show up in almost every scientific paper, yet they’re one of the most misunderstood ideas in statistics. In this episode, we break from our usual journal-club format to unpack what a p-value really is, why researchers have fought about it for a century, and how that famous 0.05 cutoff became enshrined in science. Along the way, we share st…
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Text us, Psyclithids Have you ever made a choice for your D&D character that felt like a betrayal? You know, when your Lawful Good Paladin lies, or your nature-loving Ranger fells a sacred tree? That feeling of internal conflict is a real-world psychological phenomenon called cognitive dissonance. In this episode, we're diving deep into the psychol…
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Existing portrayals of women who drink typically fall into two categories: disturbing stories of women hitting “rock bottom,” resulting in ruined careers, families, and futures, or amusing stories of fun and harmless “girls’ nights out,” with women drinking and overindulging as a temporary escape from a never-ending list of work and family demands.…
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Proudly sponsored by PyMC Labs, the Bayesian Consultancy. Book a call, or get in touch! Get early access to Alex's next live-cohort courses! Enroll in the Causal AI workshop, to learn live with Alex (15% off if you're a Patron of the show) Our theme music is « Good Bayesian », by Baba Brinkman (feat MC Lars and Mega Ran). Check out his awesome work…
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In this week's special In The Wild episode, Patrick and Greg turn their Quantitude loose on the premise that National Public Radio is liberally biased, talking about what issues we would need to have addressed in order for us to be able to evaluate whether or not that's a reasonable claim. Stay in contact with Quantitude! Web page: quantitudepod.or…
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In this episode of "In the Interim…", Dr. Scott Berry chats with Frank Harrell, a professor of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University and W.J. Dixon Award winner. Harrell describes his transition from frequentist to Bayesian clinical trial design, prompted by a decisive meeting with Dr. Don Berry, informed by David Spiegelhalter’s published work. T…
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Text us, Psyclithids 🎙️ Welcome back, Psyclithids! After a long break, The Dungeons, Dragons, & Psychology Podcast is returning on Sunday, September 21st with a full run of new content—two episodes per week, straight through the holidays. In this short episode, I share what’s ahead for the show: bigger guests, one-shots and mini-adventures, campaig…
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Get early access to Alex's next live-cohort courses! Today’s clip is from episode 140 of the podcast, with Ron Yurko. Alex and Ron discuss the challenges of model deployment, and the complexities of modeling player contributions in team sports like soccer and football. They emphasize the importance of understanding replacement levels, the Going Dee…
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This episode of Divorce, Healthy! features Attorney Ashley-Nicole Russell and her business partner Attorney Ashley Michael. They discuss the profound impact of divorce, not only on the immediate family but also on co-workers, employers, friends, and the broader community. They emphasize that divorce can change how people approach the world, both in…
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In this week's episode, the first of Season 7, Greg and Patrick argue about whether the number seven is a propitious or an inauspicious omen for the new season. They then explore ways we can spice up our relationship in hopes of avoiding the Seven Year Itch. Along the way they also discuss t-shirt wearing dogs, Mickey Mantle, the seven deadly sins,…
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In this episode of “In the Interim…”, Dr. Scott Berry interviews Dr. Derek Angus, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and Senior Editor at JAMA. The discussion addresses the decades-long controversy surrounding steroid use in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and sepsis. The episode delivers …
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Exercise has long been hailed as cancer-fighting magic, but is there hard evidence behind the hype? In this episode, we tackle the CHALLENGE trial, a large phase III study of colon cancer patients that tested whether prescribed exercise could improve cancer-free survival. We translate clinical jargon into plain English, show why ratio statistics ma…
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This episode provides a comprehensive introduction to statistical concepts and how they relate to social science research. Professor Fulton discusses the course objectives which include teaching listeners to gather, describe, analyze, and interpret data. The episode highlights the selection of an intuitive textbook designed to make the learning pro…
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In this episode of "Collecting Data and Sampling," the complexities of sampling in research are explored, drawing an intriguing parallel to casual weekend trips to Costco for free samples. This analogy sets the stage for a deeper discussion on the statistical methods and challenges involved in sampling populations for research purposes. The intrica…
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This episode provides a comprehensive introduction to statistical concepts and how they relate to social science research. Professor Fulton discusses the course objectives which include teaching listeners to gather, describe, analyze, and interpret data. The episode highlights the selection of an intuitive textbook designed to make the learning pro…
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In this episode of "Collecting Data and Sampling," the complexities of sampling in research are explored, drawing an intriguing parallel to casual weekend trips to Costco for free samples. This analogy sets the stage for a deeper discussion on the statistical methods and challenges involved in sampling populations for research purposes. The intrica…
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Dive into the intriguing world of social statistics with our latest podcast episode, "Experiments and Observations," where we unravel how variables from the General Social Survey (GSS) can shape our understanding of societal behaviors and beliefs. Join our hosts as they explore fascinating variables such as LAW1, which probes experiences with robbe…
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In this episode of the podcast titled "Variables," we delve into the intriguing world of statistics and sociology, exploring how different variables can profoundly influence our understanding of societal trends and behaviors. The discussion kicks off by examining the relationship between air pollution and the proportion of paved versus grassy groun…
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In this insightful episode of "Distributions and Relationships," listeners are guided through essential statistical concepts crucial for academic assessments and research. The discussion emphasizes the importance of precisely addressing questions as posed in assignments and exams, stressing that exceeding or misinterpreting questions can detract fr…
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Join us for the opening episode of our two-part series on "Confidence Intervals" in this enlightening podcast episode. We explore the fundamental concepts of statistical inference, using real-life examples like the correlation between smoking and health to illustrate negative correlations in data analysis. This episode provides a thorough explanati…
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In this episode of our podcast, we delve deeper into the concept of “Confidence Intervals,” focusing on how statistical inference can help us estimate population parameters based on sample data. Building on the foundation laid in part one, we explore the roles of population parameters like mean and proportion, and how they can be estimated using sa…
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Welcome to the first episode of our three-part series on “Hypothesis Testing”. This episode dives into the complexities of hypothesis testing, an essential aspect of statistical analysis, through a live classroom setting. We witness a dynamic teaching session where students engage with challenging concepts like hypothesis formulation, sample statis…
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In this enlightening episode of our educational podcast, we continue our exploration into the fundamental aspects of statistics with the second segment in our three-part series on "Hypothesis Testing." Our host expertly navigates through the complexities of hypothesis testing in statistics, focusing on the essential question: What is the probabilit…
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In this engaging final episode of our three-part series on “Hypothesis Testing,” we delve into the intricate world of statistical significance, sample sizes, and hypothesis testing errors. Our host, alongside guest statisticians, breaks down complex concepts into understandable segments, focusing on how different sample statistics like means and pr…
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In this episode, Professor Fulton begins by clarifying the key elements that define a distribution: shape, center, and spread. Highlighting how these elements can significantly inform our understanding of data without delving into complex numerical details, the discussion progresses to more specific statistical methods, such as random sampling and …
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In this episode of our podcast, we delve into the essentials of "Normal Distributions," a fundamental concept in statistics that influences various aspects of data analysis. We start by discussing the performance on a recent exam, highlighting how understanding early lessons forms the foundation for more complex topics. The focus then shifts to qua…
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In this enlightening first episode of our two-part series on "Inference for Categorical Variables," we delve into essential statistical methods for analyzing categorical data. This discussion centers on foundational concepts such as sample statistics, standard errors, significance levels, and their pivotal roles in hypothesis testing. Through pract…
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