Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Six generations

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I have often wondered what is the fewest number of generations of selective evolutionary pressure before you can see a clear bifurcation bet...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

None of it is bad but all of it is change

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Hans Rosling does some really interesting work with global measures of well-being, both past, present and projected into the future. I wa...

"I’m not going to call it a ‘sketchy’ neighborhood" - but evidence suggests that it is.

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Sometimes, you just cannot credibly make up what actually does occur. DC news crew robbed while reporting on app that identifies ‘sketchy’ ...
Monday, August 11, 2014

There’s a sense in which everybody is a competitor because everybody is doing the same thing

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From WSU researchers see violent era in ancient Southwest by Eric Sorensen. I was just out in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado a...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

When we discover that our powers of persuasion are limited to those who were already predisposed to agree with us

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Via Judith Curry's post , there is Political psychology or politicized psychology? Is the road to scientific hell paved with good moral ...
Saturday, August 9, 2014

A canary in an epistemological coalmine

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This is a rather tangled set of subjects but there are some interesting apsects. From Kardashian Index by Judith Curry. Curry is commenti...
Friday, August 8, 2014

The effects of institutional weakness, absence of a common culture, and pervasive corruption are hard to escape

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There has been a fair amount of press over the past two or three years about the perceived improvement in productivity in Africa and how tho...
Thursday, August 7, 2014

They don’t seem as eager to develop these skills

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From An 'Ether Of Sexism' Doesn't Explain Gender Disparities In Science And Tech by Isaac Cohen. Cohen makes the same point I ...
Wednesday, August 6, 2014

It just makes it, for the time being, less credible.

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You can find the most interesting things in the strangest of places. Slate is not one of my routine knowledge destinations: too biased, tr...
Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Poverty leads to fear leads to obesity . . . or something.

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From Why Are So Many Low-Income People So Overweight? by James McWilliams. I think McWilliams is both right and wrong. You’d think that o...