Showing posts with label Steven Levitt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steven Levitt. Show all posts
Friday, October 26, 2012

When you start a sentence with "one good indicator of a person who’s not so smart," you should be extra careful about what you say next

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Andrew Gelman spends some time  on this latest quote from Steven Levitt on the rationality of voting: DUBNER: So Levitt, how can you in yo...
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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Anybody's culpa?

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In what might be considered a commissioned blog post, Jonathan Robinson manages to dig up some comments that Steven Levitt would probably ...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Apparently, the lot of some economists is to be painfully condescending

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Particularly freshwater economists who seem determined to make a leitmotif out of boastful complaints about the burdens of being smarter and...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Note to Gelman -- first fill its mouth with salt, then light candles, then decapitate

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Andrew Gelman is once again going after the voting-is-irrational zombie (disinterred this time by the Freakonomics team). Gelman shows, us...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Warzones and medical research

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There was a fascinating story on today's All Things Considered about the ways that our experiences with the Afghanistan and Iraq wars ...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Freakonomics: disagreeing about why we disagree

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On today's Marketplace , Steve Levitt explains why he thinks many people see the world differently than he does: One of the easiest ways...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

More questions about the statistics of Freakonomics

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Felix Salmon is on the case : There’s a nice empirical post-script to t he debate over the economic effects of classifying the Spotted Owl a...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Meta-Freakonomics

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Joseph recently wrote a post referring to this post by Andrew Gelman (which was based on a series of posts by Kaiser Fung which check the...