Wednesday, April 2, 2014

There are valid reasons to be concerned about the SAT, starting with its history

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Given the dust and confusion being kicked up by the SAT, there's a point that I want to get on the record. Though the standard critiques...
Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Being a management consultant who does not suffer fools is like being an EMT who faints at the sight of blood

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An April 1st post on foolishness. When [David] Coleman attended Stuyvesant High in Manhattan, he was a member of the championship debate t...
Monday, March 31, 2014

Perhaps we should add "opaque" to the list of journalists' vocabulary questions

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Last week, Andrew Gelman criticized Todd Balf for picking words and phrases for their emotional connotation rather than for their actual me...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Weekend blogging -- due to cuts in arts programs, school orchestras have been forced to adopt extreme cost-cutting measures

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When you get past the novelty, the musicianship is even more impressive. The novelty is, of course, what initially drives the clicks b...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Fiscal prudence (a never ending saga)

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This is an important point about financial planning  from Megan McArdle: When people end up in financial trouble, you often hear tsk-tskin...
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Thursday, March 27, 2014

On SAT changes, The New York Times gets the effect right but the direction wrong

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That was quick. Almost immediately after posting this piece on the elimination of the SAT's correction for guessing ( The SAT and the ...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

The SAT and the penalty for NOT guessing

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Last week we had a post  on why David Coleman's announcement that the SAT would now feature more "real world" problems was bad...

Why I am optimistic about 538

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As people may or may not know, Nate Silver has launched an independent website .  Some of the people whom I respect the most on the internet...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

A tentative foray into e-publishing

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Regulars may have noticed that the blog went a bit fallow in late April and early March, though Joseph (who is disgustingly hardworking) pic...
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Monday, March 24, 2014

This is also true in Epidemiology

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Frances Woolley is back with a great post on how junior people focus on the statistical models and not the data set itself .  This is unfort...

SAT winners and losers

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One thing I've noticed about the recent calls to end the SAT is that the test is framed entirely as an obstacle. At no point is there an...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Weekend blogging -- What kind of urban culture attracts the creative class? (answered in comic strip form)

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About a month ago, we had an interesting discussion here and on Andrew Gelman's blog regarding Richard Florida's theories about the ...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Question of the day

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Roger Farmer: Why is this a big deal? Because 90% of the macro seminars I attend, at conferences and universities around the world,  stil...

Sometimes, the SAT you read about in the news doesn't look much like the actual SAT

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[Unless otherwise noted, 'SAT' refers to the SAT Reasoning Test] There are real concerns about the SAT. The emphasis on vocabulary...

Professional Conduct

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Dean Dad has the best view on the Nazareth College decision to rescind a job offer for a philosopher: I understand the emotional appeal ...