Explore every episode of the podcast Regression to the Mean Girls
| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
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| The Kiss Effect on Television Ratings with Ashley Mullan | 09 nov. 2026 | 00:38:15 | |
Ashley Mullan join Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into how a TV couples first kiss impacts ratings. Follow along on instagram: | |||
| BART for Baseball with Sameer Deshpande | 02 nov. 2026 | 01:01:07 | |
Sameer Deshpande join Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into using BART for baseball! Check out the details here: regressiontothemeangirls.com Follow along on instagram: | |||
| Dancing with the Stats with Grayson Weavil, Madeline Merrill, and Wesley Krieger | 26 oct. 2026 | 00:48:08 | |
Grayson Weavil, Madeline Merrill, and Wesley Krieger join Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into Dancing with the Stars stats. Check out the details here: regressiontothemeangirls.com Follow along on instagram: | |||
| Mixed Effects, Mixed Signals: Love Island Kissing Scores with Hannah Barton | 19 oct. 2026 | 00:47:40 | |
Hannah Barton joins Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into Love Island Kissing Scores. Check out the details here: regressiontothemeangirls.com Follow along on instagram: | |||
| Every Man's Causal Inference with Roger Peng | 12 oct. 2026 | 00:37:22 | |
Roger Peng joins Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into becoming an accidental business man. Check out the details here: regressiontothemeangirls.com Follow along on instagram: | |||
| The Marshmallow Test (Not That One) with Mattan Ben-Shachar | 05 oct. 2026 | 00:43:32 | |
Mattan Ben-Shachar joins Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into whether different colored marshmallows taste different. *Be sure to listen to the end for a surprising addendum! Check out the full process here: regressiontothemeangirls.com Follow along on instagram: | |||
| Election Data Web Scraping with Emily Riederer | 28 sept. 2026 | 00:42:46 | |
Emily Riederer (Capital One) joins Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into scraping election data. Check out the full process here: regressiontothemeangirls.com Follow along on instagram: | |||
| The Art of Web Scraping Art with Hadley Wickham | 21 sept. 2026 | 00:39:46 | |
Hadley Wickham (Posit) joins Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into building a web scraper to help acquire art. Check out the full process here: regressiontothemeangirls.com Links to content we chat about on the episode:
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| The Comfort of Competence and the Speed of Justice, According to Law & Order, with Christine Zhang | 14 sept. 2026 | 01:13:31 | |
Christine Zhang (New York Times) joins Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into the TV show Law and Order. Check out the full analysis here: regressiontothemeangirls.com Links to content we chat about on the episode: Follow along on instagram: | |||
| The Work Is Mysterious and Important: Severance Data | 07 sept. 2026 | 00:42:02 | |
Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Sarah Lotspeich return with a data-driven side quest into the TV show Severance. Lucy analyzes whether Milchick really uses more complicated language than his colleagues. Check out the full analysis here: regressiontothemeangirls.com Links to content we chat about on the episode:
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| Romance by the Numbers: First Sparks Across Tropes | 31 août 2026 | 00:56:48 | |
Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan introduce Regression to the Mean Girls, a podcast about data-driven side quests in pop culture. In this episode, Sarah analyzes 45 recent romance novels to find out how different romance tropes affect the timing of the couple’s first kiss. Check out the full analysis here: https://regressiontothemeangirls.com/ Links to content we chat about on the episode:
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