Friday, July 30, 2010

One final(?) reason not to trust teaching metrics

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Don't be too afraid (or perhaps relieved) at the thought of OE dropping the subject of education and education reform. I think I can spe...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

Variable definitions are tricky

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Tyler Cowen calls this the blog post of the year and I am inclined to agree. It gets at a classic problem of labeling of variables that me...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Association, contribution and causation

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This piece (on the contributions of medical expenses to bankruptcy) has so e important lessons for epidemiology as well. It's easy to ...

How education reform is becoming like the Eurozone

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One of the great lessons that can be (though probably won't be) learned from the current economic crisis is that you shouldn't force...
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Tenure: I just can't look away . . .

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Another couple of good Tenure posts. One from Megan McArdle's blog by rudidiri: Two points: (1) the worldwide most successful Universi...

New classes of analgesics

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There is an amazing post by JuniorProf on this subject, Go and read . The truth is that while there are effective classes, all of them hav...
Monday, July 26, 2010

Teaching yourself mathematics -- a footnote for future posts

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I'm pretty sure I'm going to be making this claim repeatedly so I might as well take a few minutes to put it down in a linkable form...

Marginal Revolution has amazing comments

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This has led me to quote a few of the best points made in the latest discussion on tenure . From PQuincy: By the way, I do admit that tenur...
Saturday, July 24, 2010

Seyward Darby -- now not even pretending to think things through

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The idea that the proposed educational reforms will magically fix everything has become so ingrained in Darby's thinking she has started...
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Friday, July 23, 2010

A quick note on tenure and the economics of deferred compensation

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(Joseph may be through with this, but I'm just getting started.) One of the many weird things about the exceedingly weird tenure debat...

One last post on Tenure

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I am not surprised that Tyler Cowen is asking the hard question that is at the center of the tenure debate . Namely, what is the plan forwa...
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Paul Krugman and the limitations of historical analysis

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I really like this post from Paul Krugman both for the reasoning and, more importantly, his awareness of the limitations. So, about the fir...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

More on Tenure

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I usually really like DeadDad. But this line in his post today: It’s about recognizing that the tenure system feeds the adjunct system, an...

"The Double-blind Job"

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I'm not much of a Leverage fan -- if you're in the mood for a caper show I'd stick with Burn Notice and Mission Impossible (t...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

The ASA was out of its mind to give Felix Salmon a reporting award

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Is the American Statistical Association even vaguely familiar with the internet? Don't they understand how the blogosphere food chain wo...