A statistical system turns noisy data into a decision you can trust. I build the tests that decide which discoveries are real, rerun published studies from public data, and write essays that turn the same tools on everyday questions.

Research

Teaching

Talks

  • Meet the Postdocs

  • Seminar

    High-dimensional Multiple Hypothesis Testing Seminar Series

    AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland · Nov 2022

Essays

  • The Dash Between the Dates

    I reran the WHO's numbers for 185 countries: the gap between living long and living well grew for two decades, then closed from the wrong end. Why both ends of a gap get written down first.

  • Same Questions, Every Body

    Five body checks, from the stroke card to the Apgar score to the clock test, and why questions asked the same way of everyone are what let a card's misses be counted. Frameworks, measured.

  • Put a Pin on It

    The setup behind this site: one file says what is live, so the pages cannot quietly drift from it.

  • Nothing Grows Alone

    The Human Microbiome Project's 2009 chart of bacteria by body part, recounted to show what it actually measured. A field that is not mine yet.

  • What It Would Take, In Cups

    The lady tasting tea, checked against every surviving source: what Fisher's eight cups could rule out, and the woman most retellings never name. My own field, hypothesis testing.

  • The House in Your Head

    A thermostat, a dishwasher and a detergent cup, and the guess written down first that shows whose model of the house is wrong. Mental models, measured.