Saturday, October 31, 2015

I ain't scared of no posts

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I've got a full week's worth of Halloween fun at the comics and pop culture blog, Mippyville . Twilight Zones , Lugosi's Zombies...
Friday, October 30, 2015

"[POPULAR APP] for [BLANK]" -- it's like Mad Libs but you end up getting twenty million in venture capital

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At the risk of making blanket pronouncements, here are some blanket pronouncements. When you hear a proposed business model described as b...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Corporate statisticians survival guide – – rule of nominal overcompensation

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There is an inverse relationship between an organization's tendency to come up with special names for something and the likelihood of yo...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

More Netflix

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This is my second big Netflix story of the week which makes me a little nervous. I am afraid that these posts often come off as att...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

This would tend to support the hack hypothesis

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This would certainly qualify as making up things Niall Ferguson's right-wing audience would like to hear , though I'm not quite rea...
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Nonetheless, I still prefer to think of music executives as rapacious creeps

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I've been meaning to write something about AntennaTV's successful campaign to air episodes of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show in r...
Monday, October 26, 2015

Things that a data-driven company ought to know

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This is the first of a couple of Netflix stories I'd like to get to this week. Just to review, the price of the stock is very high relat...
Friday, October 23, 2015

As cracked.com observed, the fact that Apple chose this guy to represent the competition tells us loads about the way the company looks at its customers.

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John Hodgman has some characteristically smart things to say about Rush Limbaugh: I said traffic counting [was the worst job] because it ...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

With any luck, the last we'll hear from these two

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I've been arguing for a while that the make-up and culture and truly bizarre politics of the education reform movement (which is overwhe...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Martian Climate Truthers

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It is very easy to hit the point of diminishing returns with Rush Limbaugh, particularly with the drip-drip-drip pace of a blog. I think th...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Meta-perception and plausible deniability

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Given the readership of this blog, I may be starting a fight I can't win by criticizing social science research in fairly general terms...
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Monday, October 19, 2015

Papering the house -- Twentieth Century style

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As a follow-up to our previous post on "crowd-casting," this excerpt from a 1996 column by Mark Evanier gives you some idea of ...
Friday, October 16, 2015

Education reform

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Go and read  Atrios' useful perspective on education reform.  A broad movement can have many goals and it can be helpful to acknowledge ...
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Well, this looks interesting

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I want to be careful not to get ahead of myself on this -- still waiting for some good, solid reporting before I get too confident -- but, ...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Dean Dad on assessments

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Of interest to our discussion on education reform : Instead, I’m a fan of the “few, big, dumb questions” approach. At the end of a progra...