Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Andrew Gelman buries the lede

›
As Joseph mentioned earlier , Andrew Gelman has a must-read post up at the Monkey Cage. The whole thing is worth checking out but for me th...

Unemployment Forecasting

›
There was a nice discussion of the plausibility of the employment figures in the new Paul Ryan 2012 budget proposal for the United States by...

The way some people talked in 1930

›
"The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second 'you.'" A few more quick thoughts before the Maltese...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Why I still drop by Krugman's blog once or twice a week

›
Here , in handy graph form, is what the good people at Heritage claim will happen if we adopt Ryan's budget. These are, of course, the s...

It's that sub-advisement you really have to worry about

›
Matt Yglesias is having trouble understanding John Hancock's explanation of its fee structure. I can't imagine why (via Felix Salmo...

Brad DeLong digs through the NYT archives for this memorable rebuttal of Charles Murray

›
From Bob Herbert : The book shows that, on average, blacks score about 15 points lower than whites on intelligence tests, a point that was ...
1 comment:

Fixing performance pay

›
Derek Neal, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago makes an interesting argument about the poor performance of performance pay...
Monday, April 4, 2011

It's possible that statisticians have an odd definition of 'interesting'

›
That being said, I'm always interested in stories about where the numbers come from, like this article from CNNMoney : Two recent price ...

Denominators

›
It is always useful to remind ourselves of the correct use of denominators, like in today's offering from Statistical Modeling, Causal ...
Sunday, April 3, 2011

Google's autocomplete can lead you to some strange and dark places

›
Case in point .

I'm not reading the funny pages -- I'm studying the implications of comparative advantage

›
Click the strip for the punchline.

Weekend Thriller Blogging -- the Maltese Falcon

›
I've been chipping away at the Joe Gores catalog and I decided to check out Spade and Archer , Gores' authorized prequel to the Malt...

At least we can still drink and drive

›
Brad DeLong has a list of around two dozen changes and corrections he'd like to see in the paperback edition of Superfreakonomics and h...
Saturday, April 2, 2011

Press-release journalism and the NYT's lost default setting

›
As I've mentioned before , much of what we've heard about the NYT paywall makes me wonder if they've really thought things throu...
Friday, April 1, 2011

Interactively nerdy

›
Pass the cursor over the image .