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What’s the point of RCTs?

methodology
experiments

An ontological perspective on the value of experimentation

Feb 13, 2025
Drew Dimmery

What was US2020?

social-media
metascience

The dialectics of big internet research

Jan 29, 2025
Drew Dimmery

Is Bluesky convivial?

technology
social-media

Smalltalk and the impossibility of social toolmaking to empower end-users

Nov 21, 2024
Drew Dimmery

Examining the Apparatus

social-media
technology

The purpose of a system is what it does!

Jan 30, 2024
Drew Dimmery

Calibration as an HTE diagnostic

methodology
experiments

Paper just accepted to Information Systems Research

Jan 16, 2024
Drew Dimmery

Plagiarism is bad

metascience

Papers are what we do: we should try to do them well

Jan 4, 2024
Drew Dimmery

Stop looking for the next Twitter

social-media
technology

BlueSky doesn’t solve any of Twitter’s real problems, nor will any other microblog

Oct 3, 2023
Drew Dimmery

A Blueprint for the Regulation of Tech

technology
metascience

Counterfactuals are the key to accurately assessing the risks of online platforms

Sep 11, 2023
Drew Dimmery

Quarto for an Academic Website

website

I continue my long search for a way to generate a nicely formatted website with publication list based on adding publication information to a single source of truth without re-remembering how all the formatting works each time.

May 11, 2022
Drew Dimmery

Using SoftBlock to Design an Experiment

experiments
demo

In this demo, I’m going to walk through an example experimental design using methods from our recent paper on Balanced Design.

May 10, 2022
Drew Dimmery
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