by Craig Marker | Oct 5, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Slate.com:Much of the time I save by ignoring the NHL every year is spent following British soccer. I’ve come to love its system of promotion and relegation. The English Premiership, where teams like Manchester United and Liverpool play, is the...
by Craig Marker | Oct 5, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from the Freakonomics Blog:Stevenson and Wolfers released a new study, “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness,” that is bound to generate a great deal of controversy. By almost any economic or social indicator, the last 35 years have been great for...
by Craig Marker | Oct 4, 2007 | Uncategorized
An interesting idea from Scott Lilienfeld:”The most important psychology experiment that’s never been done would determine whether psychology can save the world.Yes, that statement is admittedly more than a bit hyperbolic. And this experiment will probably never...
by Craig Marker | Oct 3, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from the Social Science and Statistics Blog:”How’s it going?” If you ever tried to compare the answer to this question between the average American (“great”) and European (“so-so” followed a list of minor...
by Craig Marker | Sep 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
Below is an excerpt from Wired magazine, also see this earlier entry on the ‘file drawer problem’ discussing this same problem:In 1981, the New England Journal of Medicine published a Harvard study that showed an unexpected link between drinking coffee and...
by Craig Marker | Sep 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from the Social Science Statistics blog:I was reminded again the other day that the word “data” is plural, since it means more than one “datum”, and thus “data” requires a plural verb. The Economist style guide says so, as does the European Union...
