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Arnold Scharzenagger is Stealing My Education

September 28, 2009 in college, school | Tags: , | Leave a comment

No class this evening ’cause it’s one of my prof’s furlough days forced upon him by the Governator and his friends due to the budget deficit. I thought I’d use the extra 2 hours I have of free time today to post my disapproval.

Ten years from now, when I’m lying in a gutter offering up statistical analysis (that I will only have vague ideas of how to perform) for food because of my spotty  graduate education I’m really going to hate Arnie.

Following A Conversation About School

October 4, 2008 in conversations I've had, school | Leave a comment

Uncomfortable silence.

Me: Nothing kills a party like talking about statistics.

 

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  • Project Cybersyn December 7, 2009
    Cybersyn was a project of the socialist government of Salvador Allende (1970-1973) and British cybernetic visionary Stafford Beer; its goal was to control the Chilean economy in real-time using computers and "cybernetic principles."  The military regime that overthrew Allende dropped the project and probably for this reason when the project is peri […]
    Alex Tabarrok
  • Detroit fact of the day markets in everything November 25, 2009
    Here's all you need to know about the real estate market in Michigan: The 80,000-seat enclosed Silverdome, built for $55.7 million in 1975 to house the Detroit Lions, has sold for $583,000.And you thought your home had lost its value during this recession.Think about it this way: $583,000 will get you a decent, but not terrific, house in a nice neighbor […]
    Tyler Cowen
  • Caplan on Education November 10, 2009
    How much does increasing college-going rates matter to our economy and society? Caplan: College attendance, in my view, is usually a drain on our economy and society. Encouraging talented people to spend many years in wasteful status contests deprives the economy of millions of man-years of output. If this were really an "investment," of course, it […]
    Alex Tabarrok
  • Dolphin markets in everything, Gresham's Law edition November 4, 2009
    I enjoyed this story: Kelly has taken this task one step further. When people drop paper into the water she hides it under a rock at the bottom of the pool. The next time a trainer passes, she goes down to the rock and tears off a piece of paper to give to the trainer. After a fish reward, she goes back down, tears off another piece of paper, gets another fi […]
    Tyler Cowen
  • How to improve basketball October 29, 2009
    Tim Miano writes to me: I am a longtime MR reader. I have a hypothesis about how basketball could be much more exciting, and I can't for the life of me figure out why people who are into sports haven't widely considered it (as least as far as I know).Here is my simple thought: games should be played as best 4 out of 7 periods -- perhaps 7 minutes e […]
    Tyler Cowen
  • The coin toss: not 50-50 after all October 25, 2009
    Using a high-speed camera that photographed people flipping coins, the three researchers determined that a coin is more likely to land facing the same side on which it started. If tails is facing up when the coin is perched on your thumb, it is more likely to land tails up. How much more likely? At least 51 percent of the time, the researchers claim, and pos […]
    Chris Blattman
  • Motorcycle helmet externality of the day October 13, 2009
    Our estimates imply that every death of a helmetless motorcyclist prevents or delays as many as 0.33 deaths among individuals on organ transplant waiting lists. Here is the paper and I thank Brent Wheeler for the pointer.  So should we mandate or tax the use of such helmets?
    Tyler Cowen
  • Sobering Reality September 28, 2009
    From Bill Easterly's, Can the West Save Africa.Hat tip to for the link and table to Hit and Run.
    Alex Tabarrok