Showing posts with label Worthwhile Canadian Initiative. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Worthwhile Canadian Initiative. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

False flags

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Frances Woolley has a nice post about retirement and women's rights: Yes, there are older female academics who will enjoy greater fin...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Inequality

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Frances Woolley has a post about inequality up in which she notes: It's impossible for all firms to pay their CEOs above the median s...
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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Transformations

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Frances Woolley has a post on the use of the inverse hyperbolic sine transformation for handling wealth as a variable (skewed and with lots...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

I am surprised Mark did not post this

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But one of the blogs on our blogroll has a fun probability problem . It's fun to head on over and work it out!
Friday, April 8, 2011

Some perspective

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A nice quote from the comments on Worthwhile Canadian Initiative : I'm sure we can all agree that in any organization the size of the Ca...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

Tenure and the end of mandatory retirement (Canada edition)

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Frances Woolley has a nice post about the intersection between tenure and the lack of a mandatory retirement age in Canada. It is a differ...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

More thoughts on fluoride and lithium

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Yesterday, Joseph posted his reaction to the possibility (discussed by Mike Moffatt at Worthwhile Canadian Initiative) of adding lithium to...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Lithium in the water supply

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There is an interesting post over at Worthwhile Canadian Initiative on whether to add Lithium to the water supply: A city with no-to-little...
Friday, December 31, 2010

Minimum Wage Thoughts

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An interesting point from Worthwhile Canadian Initiative : That's not to suggest that the minimum wage is necessarily bad for the low-sk...
Monday, December 20, 2010

Boom, bust and echo

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There is a really nice chart in Worthwhile Canadian Initiative (WCI) about youth unemployment over time (in Canada). I was too young to ac...
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Merit?

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From the comments section of Worthwhile Canadian Initiative : Actually one of my favourite questions on the 2008 US Jump$tart survey is this...