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Visualization of counterfactual history (Pres. Trump edition)
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Blueprints for “The Great Wall of Trump”
An engineer recently drew up a “quick design” (pictured below) of Donald Trump’s proposed USA-Mexico border wall. (You can read the full technical analysis of what it would take to build such a massive project here.) This particular design consists … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, Economics, Law, Mathematics, Politics
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Is Puerto Rico underpopulated?
Here is a real-time example of people “voting with their feet.” We lived in Puerto Rico from 1993 and 2009, and we can tell you that Puerto Ricans are severely overtaxed by their government, regardless of which political party is … Continue reading
Classroom primary
We teach a large business law and ethics lecture (n = 750) at a research university in Central Florida, and on Monday (3.14), we conducted an informal poll (via REEF polling) to see which candidates on the Republican side our students … Continue reading
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Should Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz drop out? (Republican Primary Prisoner’s Dilemma)
Our friend and colleague Steve Landsburg makes the following two observations on his blog: (i) “for either Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio to become the Republican nominee, he must first consolidate the anti-Trump vote, which is to say that either … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperation, Politics, Probability
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Open borders
Via Valerio Vincenzo, check out these amazing and beautiful pictures of open borders in the Schengen area, a geographical zone consisting of a total of 26 European countries that have abolished their passport and border controls at their common borders. … Continue reading
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Randomness and the Iowa Caucus
For reasons that are obscure to us, the State of Iowa holds the first presidential primary in the nation every four years. (Shouldn’t the first presidential primary vote be allocated at random to a different State every four years?) This … Continue reading
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Why do politicians lie so much?
Is there an “optimal level” of truth telling in politics?
Posted in Cheating, Deception, Ethics, Politics
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