Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Shout out to all first generation scholars and to Kris Harvey, who we met at the inaugural Focus on First Generation Conference held at FIU earlier this week. Ms Harvey is the curator of this helpful website designed for first … Continue reading →

Article IV, Section 3 of the original 1787 U.S. Constitution delegates to Congress the power to admit new states into the union. Pursuant to this constitutional provision, Representative Darren Soto (pictured below) recently introduced a bill in Congress authorizing the … Continue reading →

The map pictured below visualizes the average daily totals of people entering the USA from Mexico by car, bus, or on foot at various ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border.

File under: “revisionist history that is probably true.” Although the Athenian philosopher Plato presents the great Socrates as “a man of humble background, little education, few means and unappealing looks,” Plato was probably painting a false or incomplete picture of … Continue reading →

We cracked open this mammoth tome in March and are now on page 430, having just finished reading David Foster Wallace’s allegory about the allocation of scarce resources, which also happens to be one of the most fundamental questions in a … Continue reading →

Thus far, we have identified several common forms of “data fraud,” including cherry picking, data dredging, and the false cause fallacy. Yet all of these myriad forms of data fraud might be mere symptoms of a larger problem: publication bias. … Continue reading →

Thus far we have seen the related statistical sins of cherry picking and data dredging. Today, let’s talk about the false cause fallacy (or “false causality” for short), which occurs when you observe two events that appear together and then … Continue reading →