Friday, July 31, 2015

Supply and demand

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This is Joseph I'm often talking about how direct supply and demand relations seem to have broken with respect to managerial salaries ...
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Thursday, July 30, 2015

When your business model depends on finding miracle workers, you learn not to check behind the curtain

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[This is not a post about the suicide of Jeanene Worrell-Breeden. As Slate pointed out , Ms. Worrell-Breeden was facing a number of personal...
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Sometimes you just need the punchline

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This is a very old joke with endless variations. You've probably heard it before, but I find the punchline useful in a wide range of s...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

The strange loves of pundit centrists

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I've been meaning to write some posts about how the combination of bad polling data analysis combined with flawed but unquestioned ass...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Meritocracy

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This is Joseph I am a big fan of the idea of meritocracy -- the idea that personal qualities should sort people out into professions such ...
Monday, July 27, 2015

Outlier by the Bay

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As we have mentioned before, San Francisco is almost always a bad choice when trying to find cities to use as examples for economics, socia...
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Friday, July 24, 2015

REPOST -- Maybe the [2012] Republican primary [was] going just as we should [have] expect[ed]

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[This article by Sam Wang got me thinking about some posts I've been meaning to write about how most popular poll analyses could use mo...
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Thursday, July 23, 2015

The Apple Tax

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From the Onion:  Al Franken and the FTC are investigating the so-called “Apple Tax” for rival streaming services In a sentence that would ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Let's all take a moment to close our eyes and picture ourselves desecrating the grave of William Proxmire

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It hit me the other day that, while I frequently go after Republicans for taking cheap shots at science and research for personal and politi...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

"The Fallen of World War II"

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I like this video a lot, both as an example of visualizing data and for the way it tells its story. It also brings up a question I wondered...
Monday, July 20, 2015

Let's see how many people I can piss off with this one: Fox News is not all that conservative

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Feel free to post angry comments but please make sure to read a few paragraphs first. What follows is by no stretch of the imagination a de...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Euro-area thought of the day

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This is Joseph. When even Greg Mankiw has decided that austerity is probably not the best way forward (he suggests that it would be wise t...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

Update on the Washington Post piece

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Jill Diniz (Director of Eureka Math/Great Minds) has a response to the WP  post . It's very much from the MBA damage-control playbook --...
Friday, July 17, 2015

Why Eureka (and implementation in general) belongs in the Common Core debate

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Clyde Schechter had an extended reply to a recent post . Let's follow the lead of the mathematicians here and first be clear abou...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Godzilla vs. Rodan -- digital media edition

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When giant, hideous monsters clash it's difficult deciding who to root for.  Questions of team loyalty aside, this Slate article ...