Episodes 195
Avg. Duration 51m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (225)
Since Oct 2019
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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About This Podcast

A podcast dedicated to all things quantitative, ranging from the relevant to the highly irrelevant. Co-hosts Patrick Curran and Greg Hancock talk about serious statistical topics, but without taking themselves too seriously. Think: CarTalk hi-jacked by the two grumpy old guys from the Muppets, grousing about quantitative methods, statistics, and data analysis, all presented to you with the production value of a 6th grade school project. But in a good way.

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Recent Episodes

S7E23 S7E23 Quantitude Philosopher of Science Trading Cards

Jun 02, 2026 51m

In this week's episode Patrick and Greg talk about creating collectible trading cards for some of our favorite philosophers of science and the impact each has had on how we think about the practice…

S7E22 S7E22 Is College Worth It? Maybe...

May 19, 2026 33m

In this In the Wild episode, Patrick and Greg conclude their unexpected cluster of college-themed conversations by turning their Quantitude loose on the ultimate question: is college worth it. In…

S7E21 S7E21 Qualitative Research with Emily Namey

Apr 28, 2026 41m

In this week's episode Greg and Patrick have a wonderful time talking about qualitative research methods with Emily Namey. Emily has dedicated her entire career to qualitative research and she helps…

S7E20 S7E20 Modeling Co-Development Over Time

Apr 21, 2026 49m

In this week's episode Greg and Patrick follow-up their previous discussion of time-varying covariates with a conversation about methods for modeling the simultaneous development in two or more…

S7E19 S7E19 Growth Modeling With Time-Varying Covariates

Apr 07, 2026 42m

In this week's episode, Greg and Patrick have great fun talking about the inclusion of time-varying covariates within growth models. They differentiate time invariant from time varying predictors,…

S7E18 S7E18 St. Patrick's Day Pub Quiz

Mar 24, 2026 40m

In this week's episode, Greg and Patrick magically find themselves at trivia night in the Rusty Mackerel pub in Teelin, Ireland, where a secret celebrity trivia master puts them on the spot to test…

S7E17 S7E17 Elements of Structural Equation Models with Ken Bollen

Mar 10, 2026 45m

In this week's episode Patrick and Greg talk with Ken Bollen who is a Professor of Psychology and Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to exploring topics…

S7E16 S7E16 Jumping Into Regression Discontinuity Designs

Feb 24, 2026 42m

In this week's episode, Greg and Patrick discuss the decades-old method of the regression discontinuity design and describe how, when properly applied, this approach can strengthen our causal…

S7E15 S7E15 Are College Rankings Useful? Maybe...

Feb 10, 2026 44m

In this In the Wild episode, Greg and Patrick turn their Quantitude loose on college rankings. In particular, they discuss whether these rankings are of use to anyone at all, and what issues we would…

S7E14 S7E14 Sample Size Planning: The Groundhog Day Episode

Feb 03, 2026 43m

In this week's episode Greg and Patrick talk, for the third time, about power analysis, drawing on a recent paper by Greg and Yi Feng at UCLA, that reminds us how little we actually know when sample…

S7E13 S7E13 Time-Varying Effect Models

Jan 20, 2026 43m

In this week's episode Patrick and Greg explore the incredibly cool possibilities offered by the time-varying effects model as a non-parametric alternative to the more restrictive time-varying…

S7E12 S7E12 The Gift of Regifting

Dec 16, 2025 33m

This week's episode is the seventh annual Quantitude Holiday Special, but because Greg and Patrick both forgot to get each other something, they frantically regift one another some of their favorite…

S7E11 S7E11 Should Essays be Used in College Admissions? Maybe...

Dec 09, 2025 44m

In this In The Wild episode, Patrick and Greg turn their Quantitude loose on college admission essays, in particular whether or not they should be used to make such high-stakes decisions, and they…

S7E10 S7E10 A Report Card on GPAs

Dec 02, 2025 43m

In this week's episode Patrick and Greg have fun exploring the questionably valid but always high stakes role of the grade point average, of GPA. They consider the different ways in which grades can…

S7E9 S7E09 Modeling Categorical Change with Latent Transition Analysis

Nov 18, 2025 40m

In this week's episode Patrick and Greg talk about latent transition analysis, which embeds latent class analysis within a longitudinal context, allowing us to explore, as well as to formally test,…

S7E8 S7E08 Bootstrapping

Nov 11, 2025 44m

In this week's episode Greg and Patrick discuss the amazing world of the empirical bootstrap. They start with inferential testing using business as usual, describe where that quickly runs into…

S7E7 S7E07 Is the SAT Biased and Should be Banned? Maybe...

Nov 04, 2025 39m

In this In The Wild episode, Greg and Patrick turn their Quantitude loose on the ever-present SAT, in particular the premise that it is biased and should be banned. They also talk about what issues…

S7E6 S7E06 Non-Academic Jobs: A Conversation with Jeremy Miles

Oct 21, 2025 46m

In this week's episode, Patrick and Greg have a lovely conversation with Jeremy Miles, a quantitative methodologist who has worked in both academic and industry settings. Jeremy draws on his own…

S7E5 S7E05 The Academic Job Talk

Oct 14, 2025 38m

In this week's episode, as we head into the academic job season, Patrick and Greg offer some well-meaning advice about one of the most important aspects of an on-site interview, the academic job…

S7E4 S7E04 Does Birth Order Matter? Maybe...

Oct 07, 2025 34m

In this week's In The Wild episode, Patrick and Greg turn their Quantitude loose on the premise that birth order has a causal impact on the very person who you are. They discuss what questions they…

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Quantitude is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 51m.

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