Series This is post 2 of the Crossword Science series. < > People want to get better at crosswords. There's something about recording a number every day that makes you invested in it, you know? In my last post on crossword science, I talked about a competitive NYT Minicrossword club I'm a part of, and how I used Stan to learn a statistical model of different peoples' skill at the crossword. However, that model viewed skill as a single, unchangeable attribute. In this post, I want to fix that....