Saturday, May 30, 2015

It is a legitimately good sign when a transportation story uses the term “maximum throughput”

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Tom Vanderbilt writing for the Washington Post: But as good as fast-moving roads might be for the individual driver, they are not the bes...
Friday, May 29, 2015

A statistician walks into a grocery store... repeatedly

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Things have gotten busy over at the food blog . The plan was always to go hot and heavy for a month or two. With almost one hundred pos...
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Adventures in Ithuvania

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There's a wonderful Far Side cartoon that shows two scientists addressing a man sitting behind a desk in a sumptuous office. The lead s...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

The actual future of the driverless vehicle

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I've been fairly skeptical of the likelihood of seeing driverless cars in the near future, partially because the economic case was weak...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

"Inequality and Urbanism"

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When time permits, I want to get back to this. From Paul Krugman : First, when it comes to things that make urban life better or worse, ...

"...pretty soon you're talking real money"

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Every now and then, it is useful to step back and remind ourselves just how much money is changing hands due to the education reform moveme...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Three from our war on science correspondent...

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... Mike the Mad Biologist . Justin Pidot writing for Slate . Imagine visiting Yellowstone this summer. You wake up before dawn to take ...
Monday, May 25, 2015

Really cheap chickenless chicken and black-bean soup

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I've got another post at the food blog on how you can actually live on a food stamp budget.

The New York Times has a class problem -- "Poor Little Rich Women"

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Actually, it's not just a NYT problem -- it extends throughout the media -- but it has gotten particularly embarrassing with what is sup...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

Seen recently at the food blog

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From  A Statistician Walks into a Grocery Store...
Friday, May 22, 2015

I haven't made up my mind whether Mike is onto something with the "gentry class" designation

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But it's definitely an idea worth discussing. To return to [David] Leonhardt , this is the key point: There is a good debate ab...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

Fake Data in Political Science

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This is Joseph. One of the most challenging things in population research is the need to trust in the data and analysis done by other grou...

Blast from the past -- The curse of large numbers and the real problem with p-values

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Following up on Joseph's recent piece . [Originally posted  MARCH 22, 2010 ] (Some final thoughts on statistical significance) The...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Very good statistics post (p-value edition)

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This is Joseph (and I located the piece through Economist's View ) This article on p-values was a  very interesting read.  The author ...

Double-talk and Mathiness

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If you haven't been following the reaction to Paul Romer's Mathiness paper , you should check it out. Here's a key quote: Aca...