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A reverse-Facebook experiment
Our friends at Facebook recently received a lot of bad press for conducting a masssive secret psych experiment on 700,000 of its users without their consent. (Update: The journal that published Facebook’s research published a pusillanimous Expression of Concern but did not … Continue reading
Law’s dirty little secret …
Michelle N. Meyer, an academic fellow of bioethics and biotechnology at Harvard Law School, recently brought to our attention this fascinating blog post titled “Leveling Up,” which was originally written by law professor Christian Turner. She helpfully describes various levels of legal analysis as … Continue reading
Fair or foul?
According to our friends at ESPN, a federal judge in Northern California has ruled that the NCAA can’t prevent college athletes from selling the rights to their names. Judge Claudia Wilken, in a landmark 99-page decision, has ruled in favor of former UCLA … Continue reading
Extra points
In today’s league, the specialization of NFL kickers means that missing an extra point is a formality gone terribly awry, like French-kissing the pope’s ring or holding the door open for someone to an empty elevator shaft. That remarkable sentence … Continue reading
Happy fourth anniversary, Retraction Watch
Originally posted on Retraction Watch:
Yesterday was our fourth birthday. We published our first post, “Why write a blog about retractions?” on August 3, 2010, and the anniversary seems as good a time as any to review where we’ve been.…
Why doesn’t the Coase Theorem work in Gaza?
The “Coase Theorem” is a beautiful prediction or simple model from the world of academic economics that does not always hold up in the real world. (Look it up.) (Bonus link: check out our related research on this topic “Does the Prisoner’s … Continue reading
Will LeBron win another NBA championship?
Put another way, if you had to wager your money on this question, would you bet on the Cleveland Cavaliers, or would you bet the field? (Yeah, that’s what we thought.) By the way, while we’re on the subject of #23, what’s … Continue reading
Women against feminism …
Check out this funny and controversial Women Against Feminism tumblr where women of all ages and races post selfies explaining why they reject feminism. Is this a sign of progress, or a step backwards? What would Rosie say?
Posted in Bayesian Reasoning, Current Affairs, Politics
Tagged Anti-feminism, Feminism
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Should the NFL stop suspending players?
Harry Cheadle makes the case in this essay for ending the NFL Commissioner’s unilateral and arbitrary power to suspend players for “off-field behavior”: Announce that no one is going to be suspended or fined by the league for any off-field behavior and … Continue reading
Why can’t Tom Brady get a high-five?
hat tip: tim carmody
prior probability 