Thursday, May 1, 2014

Symmetries and asymmetries of the fringes

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I've already referred to this excellent Rick Perlstein essay (" I didn’t like Nixon until Watergate "), but I never got around...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

I'm amazed that no one seems to have quoted George Bernard Shaw on Donald Sterling and the NAACP

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Not that I necessarily agree with Shaw (I'm not entirely certain that Shaw agrees with Shaw), but given the discussion over whether the ...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Problems that (nearly) rich people have -- college edition

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Yet another one of those posts that I started weeks ago as part of the  big   SAT   thread  then didn't get around to posting. What ar...
Monday, April 28, 2014

More on understanding the math but not the statistics

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[one of the standard rebuttals to criticisms of popular STEM writing is that certain compromises have to be made when putting things in ...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

Adam Smith is a deeper thinker than he is often given credit for

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A very nice extraction of some of Adam Smith's views is here at the Monkey Cage.  A couple of key passages: For instance, he describe...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Weekend blogging -- string pragmatists and legal meta-information, two more reasons I wish I could embed CBS clips

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I understand their reasons (one of these days I need to do something on the mismanagement of Hulu by way of comparison), but this post would...
Friday, April 25, 2014

With many standard stories, what gets left out is often the best part

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This is another zombie example post, sort of a follow-up to the tulipmania rant , but in a bit of a different subgenre. That post focused on...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Why I criticize 538 more than Business Insider (mainly because I don't read Business Insider)

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Okay, that's not really true. I do check out the occasional Business Insider article when it is recommended by one of the bloggers I fol...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Believe it or not, we've been talking about the nice Krugman -- some perspective on the 538 debate

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[You may have trouble getting past the NYT firewall on these. If so, the easiest way around this is either to Google name and author or do w...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

What do grades measure?

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[I wrote this in the middle of the big SAT thread and I thought I had posted it weeks ago but it appears that I never got around to it. S...
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Monday, April 21, 2014

What Nate Silver's critics are actually saying

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Regarding the ongoing 538 discussion , it appears that we may be talking across each other in this case (from a previously mentioned comme...
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Friday, April 18, 2014

Good post on Vox about issues with ordinal variables

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This was a very good article tackling the issues of trying to assign an ordinal score to a multi-dimensional variable.  Mark has been sayin...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Gauss, the fox who decided to be a hedgehog

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As mentioned before, I'm not entirely comfortable with the fox/hedgehog spectrum -- this isn't a concept that reduces readily to a s...
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Monday, April 14, 2014

Zombie Alert

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Dean Starkman had an interesting piece in the New Republic on the financial crisis. At least, it held my interest until I came across one ...
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Saturday, April 12, 2014

Weekend blogging -- getting VORPal

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Ken Levine's blog is one of the go-to references for those interested in the business, history and art of television. As you can see fr...