Saturday, May 16, 2015

Tread carefully when it comes to deciding for poor people what their consumption preferences should be.

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From Why Don't They Come? by Ian David Moss, Louise Geraghty, Clara Schuhmacher and Talia Gibas These researchers seem both deeply com...
Friday, May 15, 2015

The frustrated favor radical change

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I recently came across a beat up old copy of Eric Hoffer's classic, The True Believer. Still early days in reading it. I can see why i...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

The answers are in our questions

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A brief but entertaining example of the importance of framing questions . Surveys can provide useful information but the you have to be ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Truth is great, and will prevail if left to herself

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Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom by Thomas Jefferson. Drafted in 1777 and enacted in 1786. One of the three accomplishments Jefferso...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

The college had attempted to "silence [the eagle's] own story."

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Tumult At Oberlin In Wake Of Emotional Support Animal Companion Initiative by Ken White had me going all the way up to paragraph four. It ...

Cognitive Pollution Checklist

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Awesome summary. From A Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science from BITSS. Click to enlarge. Following this checklist get's you 80% o...

Bring back local political competition

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Mathematics has an uncomfortable way of bringing clarity to issues we might not otherwise wish to address. This truism is illustrated in Th...
Monday, May 11, 2015

Millennials who regard talking on the phone as a barbarism akin to the chamber pot

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An interesting set of observations arising from the UK election at the end of last week, Pollsters Are Worse Than Ever by Megan McArdle. I’...

Ideas - If they are true, they are not fungible; if they are false, they are worthless

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From Marketplace of ideas by David Warren. One of those essays where I am not fully consonant with the general drift, but can enjoy many p...

The Oberlin College choir responds to the Christina Sommers controversy

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Heh. Mockery is often the best form of argument, artful mockery even more so. This purports to be The Oberlin College choir responds to th...