Friday, October 31, 2014

Measurement

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This is Joseph. Thoreau: We’re all familiar with the critiques of standardized tests and other common measures used for high-stakes dec...
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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Old story, new setting

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I realize we've hammered this point quite a bit but, for their own good as well as the public's, charter schools have got to come up...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Mark says smart stuff

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This is Joseph In the context of a recent post by Mark Palko : Both the tech and financial sector have embraced the idea that economic r...

This is the perfect October clip

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At least for a snarky epidemiology blog...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Graphs that make me nervous -- UPDATED

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[Here's a good link to the full report .] A couple of quick caveats: I am never entirely comfortable focusing too much on "addit...
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Yes, a Surgeon General would come in handy right about now

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For me, one of the most interesting stories in politics these days is the way that information has come to flow in the the conservative move...

"—We Also Walk Dogs"

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I've been going through some old posts on incentive pay and they got me thinking about how education reformers, fresh water economists a...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Optimization and college enrollments

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This is Joseph. Dean Dad had a great post a while back on trying to improve classroom scheduling .  In it, he had a great example of the p...

Mark Evanier points out the fundamental contradiction in conservative complaints about Hollywood's "political correctness"

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Mark Evanier is one of LA's leading pop culture experts (and in this town that's a high bar). He's been writing for television a...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

Three films

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Sometimes, in the course of researching a post, a link leads to a completely unexpected corner of the internet. In this case, a post on Mark...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Have you had your flu shot yet?

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This is Joseph I was reading Mike the Mad Biologist's web page and I noted this article on Ebola and the flu.  Ebola has been in the ...

When journalists have an ethical obligation to roll their eyes...

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...or at least ask a follow-up question. Maybe it's just me, but don't journalists have an obligation to object when sources say s...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

David Brooks, con(firmation) artist

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[picking up where we left off here ] David Brooks has one of the most desirable jobs in journalism; it is also one of the most difficult. ...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Another one for the West Coast Stat View Lexicon -- Farpotshket

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I'm just a good ol' Arkansas boy (and a lapsed Presbyterian to boot) so I don't know from Yiddish, but for anyone discussing ed...

"The skeptics are wrong all the time"

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Marc Andreessen has a new interview up and it is characteristically packed with silliness. If things had gone better for ViolaWWW, do you ...