Finally a post – thanks to Gelman’s blog

I’m not sure how many have noticed the sad frequency of my blog posts, but I have. My life looks and feels so very different, both professionally and personally, than it did when I started to write in earnest in September of 2019. In some ways, it feels like a lifetime ago – but it was a sweet few months I enjoyed in a liminal space that I am now very thankful for. I just didn’t realize quite how liminal the space was.

As we head into 2021, things feel chaotic and unsettled in so many ways. Like many of you, I am working to accept what I cannot change and to learn greater flexibility. I finally realize that to make my own writing happen, I will have to rearrange (and give up) some things I can control — it feels important for many reasons.

For now, thanks to Andrew Gelman for having an enormous blog lag (a different type of lag than my blog) and providing a post this week for me to share to start things off again — titled Megan Higgs (statistician) and Anna Dreber (economist) on how to judge the success of a replication. It relates to this post I wrote last year, but provides a different look within an email exchange.

Welcome to 2021 everyone.