Thursday, January 31, 2013

Shamisen heroes and free TV

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I had been working on another piece about over the air television when I happened to surf across this video on one of the many Asian-t...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Unintended consequences

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I normally agree with pro-immigration stands, but this one strikes me as likely to do something different than expected: While I think t...
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Friday, January 25, 2013

Paul Krugman on progress

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Paul Krugman gets skeptical : By and large, I’m in the camp of those disillusioned about technology — mainly, I think, because the future...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

A different take on grades and money from home -- part 1 Hypothesis Shopping

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New study claims more money from home is associated with lower grades. I came across this in a post from Andrew Gelman who had some sharp...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Survivor bias

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There has been some discussion about meony from parents leading to a lower GPA from both Andrew Gelman   and I .  One of the comments at And...
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Health Care spending

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I often worry that comparison between the United States and Canada understate the room we have to improve health care costs.  But Matt Ygle...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

More reflections on a study (EDITED)

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Okay, before I get to the meat of this post, this quote by Andrew Gelman is dynamite: . . . I’m generally suspicious of arguments in whi...
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One more cognitive dissonance post

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Andrew Gelman has a good, skeptical response  to some questionable claims from Herbalife, but there's one point where we're in disag...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Alexandria Word Searches -- a new kind of puzzle for the weekend

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I've got a post on a different kind of word search puzzle at You Do the Math . Mainly pitched toward teachers, but hopefully still fun ...
Saturday, January 19, 2013

"Edward Tufte Wants You to See Better"

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I was looking for an interview for a post on the way we cover health issues, when I came across this interview with Edward Tufte . I haven...
Friday, January 18, 2013

Just another (incredibly bizarre) data point

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I dislike posts and op-eds that use the latest big news story as an excuse to mount a favorite hobby horse, but I can't pass this one up...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

Ray Fisman has a new book you might want to check out

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Though we've disagreed strongly in the past, Ray Fisman is a smart guy with some insightful things to say about a problem Joseph and I h...

Safety Nets and Canada

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Dean Dad has an interesting observation: I was reminded of that a few days ago, in a discussion with a Canadian colleague.  We have simi...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Stop me if you've heard this one before

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Michael Shermer has an interesting post over at Scientific American, but there's one paragraph I'm not too happy about. Cognitive...

Misleading graphics

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This infographic has been coming under criticism from the usual suspects .  The group that got hit the worst was the married couple with ...
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