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Proximity Ascertainment Bias in Early Covid Case Locations
M. B. Weissman
A comparison of the distances to the Huanan Seafood Market of early Covid cases with known links to the market versus cases without known links shows results apparently incompatibl…
Comment on "Rubric-based holistic review represents a change from traditional graduate admissions approaches in physics"
Michael B. Weissman
A recent paper evaluating a new rubric-based graduate admissions approach using generic methods tentatively suggested that its decisions differed noticeably from the previous appro…
Comment on "Examining the effect of counter-narratives about physics on women's physics career intentions"
M. B. Weissman, J. M. Robins
A paper evaluating the effects of lessons intended to encourage high school students to continue physics studies made some important errors. One was to underestimate the width of c…
Comment on "How perception of learning environment predicts male and female students' grades and motivational outcomes in algebra-based introductory physics courses"
Michael B. Weissman
A recent paper used structural equation modeling to infer effects of gender-dependent student attitudes on several outcomes of introductory physics courses. The model used is preci…
Methods of Causal Inference in Physics Education Research
M. B. Weissman
Finding good educational policies requires sound estimates of their potential effects. Methods for making such estimates, i.e. finding causal estimands, have made great progress in…
Do Most Students Need In-Person Lectures? A Study of a Large Statistics Class
Ellen S. Fireman, Zachary S. Donnini, Michael B. Weissman +1
Over 1100 students over four semesters were given the option of taking an introductory undergraduate statistics class either by in-person attendance in lectures or by taking exactl…