Blog | Experimental ramblings

A blog on experimental linguistics with a focus on statistical methods

Below are my various experimental ramblings on experiments, usually (at least implicitly) in the domain of formal linguistics. Posts will oscillate from being at the level of personal notes made public to more geared-towards-an-audience type writing.

Small facts lead to great knowing. (The Wise Man’s Fear, Kingkiller Chronicle II, Rothfuss 2011)

Biased estimators II: Too many participants

In continuation of the post on biased estimators, today we ask: what’s the harm in running what some people call one-shot experiments where you have very few items but many…

Jan 31, 2026

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Biased estimators

The plan for today is to talk about an oft-neglected difference between means and standard deviations in statistics. As we will see, while means are relatively immune to…

Dec 20, 2025

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References

Rothfuss, Patrick. 2011. The wise man’s fear. London: Gollancz.