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...
by Craig Marker | Sep 25, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from livescience.com: Forty-three years after that Friday in Dallas, JFK is still the victim of a massive conspiracy, Elvis is still alive and presumably eating chocolate-covered fried chicken, and Paul McCartney is dead. For those who don’t know,...
by Craig Marker | Sep 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from the Wired Science Blog:The capacity for cluelessness of the clever was the subject of an Idea Festival talk by journalist Laurence Gonzales, who in Deep Survival examined the question of why some people survive crises and others die. The two questions,...
by Craig Marker | Sep 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Livescience: A common media myth that sprung up after the attacks was that American tastes in entertainment would be forever changed. After seeing real-life horrors, the experts claimed, Americans would yearn for non-violent, wholesome family fare....
by Craig Marker | Sep 10, 2007 | Uncategorized
Here is an excerpt from this article by Peter Lawrence: Modern science, particularly biomedicine, is being damaged by attempts to measure the quantity and quality of research. Scientists are ranked according to these measures, a ranking that impacts on funding of...
