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	<title>Emilee Rader</title>
	<link>http://bierdoctor.com</link>
	<description>Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Technology and Social Behavior @ Northwestern University</description>
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		<title>&#8220;getting the most out of twitter&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was an interesting article the other day on nytimes.com titled &#8220;Getting the Most out of Twitter&#8221; which essentially argues that lurking (i.e., reading others&#8217; posts and not posting yourself) is the way to go:
Even the most prolific users say Twitter has become more useful as a way to tap in to the discussions of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bierdoctor.com/2010/03/05/getting-the-most-out-of-twitter/</link>
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		<title>adventures in social filtering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot lately about &#8220;social filtering&#8221;, or the practice of discovering information by paying attention to what others are paying attention to. Evidence of the attention of others is explicitly captured and aggregated by various social media applications like Digg, delicious, and Twitter / TweetMeme. This is hardly a new concept (see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bierdoctor.com/2010/03/02/adventures-in-social-filtering/</link>
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		<title>supplemental statistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across a really interesting paper recently after seeing it referred to in a news story: Female teachers&#8217; math anxiety affects girls&#8217; math achievement  (Beilock et al., 2010, PNAS, with Supplemental information)
The researchers recruited 17 first- and second-grade teachers (all female) and assessed the math achievement of the students in their classrooms at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bierdoctor.com/2010/02/27/supplemental-statistics/</link>
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		<title>web applications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alina Lungeanu and I started collecting data last week on our experiment! I don&#8217;t want to say too much about the hypotheses, etc. in case potential participants google me and find this blog post, so instead today I&#8217;m writing about why I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m not a web application developer.
For the experiment we are using the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bierdoctor.com/2010/02/25/web-applications/</link>
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		<title>large datasets and threats to validity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just read &#8220;Limits of Predictability in Human Mobility&#8221; by Chaoming Song, et al. (Science, Vol. 327, 2010). The paper reports an analysis of a really amazing dataset: three months of cell phone records for ~10 million customers of a large European carrier (&#8220;anonymized by the data source&#8221;). These records include information about the cell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bierdoctor.com/2010/02/23/large-datasets-and-threats-to-validity/</link>
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		<title>google buzz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am dismayed by the way Google has rolled out Buzz, and I am not alone. Many bloggers and news organizations have raised issues with Google&#8217;s misguided assumption that email contacts form the same kind of social network as users of Facebook and Twitter (etc.) have built up over time. For example, a NY Times [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bierdoctor.com/2010/02/14/google-buzz/</link>
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		<title>happy new year!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing the yearly tradition I started last January, here is my 2009 word cloud, made using wordle.net from the text of the blog posts I wrote in 2009. The most common words don&#8217;t look too different from the 2008 wordle! 

It&#8217;s an SVG image, so if you&#8217;re having problems viewing it try using a more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bierdoctor.com/2010/01/01/happy-new-year-2/</link>
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		<title>CHI 2010 paper accepted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am happy to announce that my submission to CHI 2010, &#8220;The Effect of Audience Design on Labeling, Organizing, and Finding Shared Files&#8221;, was accepted! This paper presents the results from the quantitative part of my dissertation. Here&#8217;s the final version. 
ABSTRACT: In an online experiment, I apply theory from psychology and communications to find out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bierdoctor.com/2009/12/13/chi-2010-paper-accepted/</link>
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		<title>beyond significance testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading a book lately before bed, a little bit at a time: Beyond Significance Testing, by Rex B. Kline. It isn&#8217;t exactly a suspenseful page-turner; maybe if I tried reading it some other time of day than when I am already sleepy I might be able to get through it faster.
The purpose of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bierdoctor.com/2009/12/12/beyond-significance-testing/</link>
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		<title>group information repositories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is the fourth in a series of posts covering projects I worked on before my current postdoc position. Below I have included the abstract for my dissertation, Social Influences on User Behavior in Group Information Repositories. I have produced two papers from my thesis; one was published in CHI 2009, and the other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bierdoctor.com/2009/10/28/group-information-repositories/</link>
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