Wednesday, June 29, 2011

If you're serious about education reform...

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You should question policies that devastate the families and communities of our most vulnerable children, reinforce the hold gangs have on t...
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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Adoption studies as Rorschach test

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As mentioned before , some (including perhaps Sacerdote himself) look at Bruce Sacerdote's research and conclude that parents don't ...

Another data dump

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I should probably add Jared Bernstein to my regular reading list. Felix Salmon points out another one of those things that make me nervous ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

more thoughts on geoengineering

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I've previously discussed my mystification about how palatable many libertarians find geoengineering. I didn't get around to my con...

Extraordinary interview with Eric Sterling

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[Coming off a big and busy week here at OE so you can expect to see a lot of catch-up posts over the next few days.] Though we generally don...
Monday, June 20, 2011

Bond villains can be so hard to shop for

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This is not an opportunity you want to pass up.

Now their feelings are hurt

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From Felix Salmon : If you want a great example of the kind of mean things that people are saying about Groupon in the run-up to its IPO, y...

Those darned Canadians

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If your BS detector isn't going off, you need to check your battery

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When it comes to politics and journalism, the people at Talking Points Memo are about the best bullshit detectors you'll find. When it c...

Some confusion with the concept of future tense

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McKinsey continues to deal with the fall out from its recent health care report: Even as it issued the disclaimer that its report was not i...

Weekend Blogging -- Free TV edition

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As you might have noticed, broadcast TV is a recurring topic at OE (for reasons too involved to pursue at the moment). Weigel Broadcasting ...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

"Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in." -- another Groupon post (merchant relations edition)

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I keep meaning to move on from this subject, but Groupon keeps giving us new reasons to suspect that they aren't that interested in the ...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

So much for maintaining a light tone over the weekend

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From the AP : Americans are living longer, but not in every corner of the country. A new study shows that in hundreds of U.S. counties — m...

"How To Party Your Way Into a Multi-Million Dollar Facebook Job" -- the sad state of business journalism

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Andrew Gelman (before his virtual sabbatical ) linked to this fascinating Gawker article by Ryan Tate: If you want Facebook to spend mill...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

More bad statistics from Freakonomics

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[Caveat: It is difficult to distinguish between bad and badly presented statistics. The reader should always allow for the possibility of a ...
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