by Craig Marker | May 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
From the Social Science Statistics Blog:Some journals require authors to make datasets and codes available for a while already… the American Economic Review requires authors to submit their data since 2004, and this information is now available on their website....
by Craig Marker | May 8, 2007 | Uncategorized
A recent study in the journal Psychological Science shows the way videos are produced can subtly trick viewers into thinking the confessions are voluntary depending on whether the video focused on the suspect or detective…. Lassiter and colleagues from...
by Craig Marker | May 7, 2007 | Uncategorized
In the May 2007 Discover magazine there is a short article titled “Urban Unplanning”. It describes how taking away street signs may actually make people drive more safely. The idea is based on the risk compensation effect. Here is a quote from the...
by Craig Marker | May 4, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from the Mahalanobis Blog:Success breeds its own failure in creative work because a successful writer or director gets less needed criticism, which creates self-indulgent, rambling works where the author doesn’t tell us what’s new, true and...
by Craig Marker | May 3, 2007 | Uncategorized
The New York Times has an article looking at the rate at which white referees call fouls on black players (and black referees call fouls on white players). an excerpt from the Mahalonobis Blog: The article by Joseph Price and Justin Wolfers, Racial Discrimination...
