by Craig Marker | May 10, 2007 | Uncategorized
From the Social Science Statistics Blog:The Achievement Index is a way of calculating GPA that takes into account not only how well one performs in a class, but also how hard the class is relative to others in the institution… The model, which is Bayesian,...
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...
by Craig Marker | May 2, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Newsweek:it’s hard to grasp how much of science is subjective, and especially how much leeway there is in choosing how to conduct a study. No one is alleging that scientists stack the deck on purpose. Let’s just say that depending on how...
by Craig Marker | Apr 30, 2007 | Uncategorized
From the Mahalonobis Blog:Nicola Clayton et al. sought to tease apart scrub-jays’ momentary desires from their planning for future needs. They let the birds eat as much of one food as they wanted, exploiting a condition called specific satiety—once the birds are...
by Craig Marker | Apr 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
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by Craig Marker | Apr 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
From the Becker-Posner Blog:Nor is this all. Research increasingly demonstrates that education improves performance in virtually every aspect of life. Educated persons on the whole are healthier, are better at investing in their children, have more stable marriages,...
