by Craig Marker | Aug 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
Here is an excerpt from Supercrunchers, in which the author (a lawyer) discussed what makes an article more likely to be cited by other authors: As a law professor, my primary publishing job is to write law review articles. I don’t get paid for them, but a central...
by Craig Marker | Aug 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
Here is an abstract from the Journal of Consumer Research: The Influence of Ceiling Height: The Effect of Priming on the Type of Processing That People Use Authors: Joan Meyers-Levy & Rui (Juliet) Zhu Abstract: This article demonstrates that variations in ceiling...
by Craig Marker | Aug 22, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Livescience.com: A new weather-forecasting model based on autumn snowfall in Siberia could help meteorologists predict winter temperatures and snowfall in the United States and Europe. The model results, reported this week in the Journal of Climate,...
by Craig Marker | Aug 21, 2007 | Uncategorized
The American Psychological Association released a statement on torture recently. Here is an excerpt:… mock executions, water-boarding or any other form of simulated drowning or suffocation, sexual humiliation, rape, cultural or religious humiliation,...
by Craig Marker | Aug 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from the Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science Blog:In this discussion of Allegra Goodman’s book novel Intuition, Barry wrote, “brilliant people are at least as capable of being dishonest as ordinary people.” The novel...
by Craig Marker | Aug 14, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Slate.com:In Sunday’s New York Times, science writer Gina Kolata took on studies suggesting that men tend to have more sexual partners than women do. This CDC study, for one, shows that American men between the ages of 20 and 59 report...
