Wednesday, September 26, 2012

What is the new interest in complexity?

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One thing that I have been wondering a lot about lately is the move towards more and more complex ways of doing things that should be relati...
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Even Jaime Escalante wasn't a Jaime Escalante

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A quick follow-up to Joseph's last post, particularly his use of the late Jaime Escalante as an example. Perhaps the central assumptio...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Following Mark's link on education

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As a follow-up to Mark I wanted to specically call out some of the pieces of Felix Salmon's piece on test scores and education.  Ins...

Essential Felix

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It's a busy week so I don't have the time to give this the build-up it deserves, but if you've been following the education refo...
Monday, September 24, 2012

The main reason epidemiology is hard... urgency

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There's a point I should have emphasized in my previous post about this news story Researchers have long documented that the most educ...
Saturday, September 22, 2012

More on the whole "Epidemiology is Hard" thing

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There's a new study that's been getting a lot of press: For generations of Americans, it was a given that children would live lon...
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Friday, September 21, 2012

This does not seem to be a hoax

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From Marketplace : But the course of true investing never did run smooth, and there are some traders who look to the stars to tell them ...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

LA billboards -- another n = 1 hypothesis

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I have absolutely nothing more than vague impressions to back this up but it seems that a disproportionate share of the billboards of in thi...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Back on the down ticket question

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As mentioned before, one of the most interesting aspects of this election is the way the different races interact. Thomas Ferraro has a g...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Why is investment in human capital out of favor?

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David Brooks : The final thing the comment suggests is that Romney knows nothing about ambition and motivation. The formula he sketches i...
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Monday, September 17, 2012

Another recommend (this time not blind)

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Dana Goldstein has some smart observations on Chicago and the teacher testing debate.

Another reason observational epidemiology is hard

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John D Cook : And yet behind every complex set of rules is a paper showing that it outperforms simple rules, under conditions of its auth...
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Sunday, September 16, 2012

Important if true

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In the Nineteenth Century, news stories sometimes carried the disclaimer " Important if true ." It was used for news that couldn...
Saturday, September 15, 2012

Blind recommendation

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I haven't got a chance to listen to more than the first couple of minutes, but I'm still prepared to recommend This American Life...
Friday, September 14, 2012

A culture of bad journalism

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Eight years ago, in the bastions of the "liberal media" that were supposed to love Gore—The New York Times, The Washington Post, ...
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