Somewhere else, part 35
This week, as usual, there is much more to read somewhere else than on my own blog.
“Average number of languages spoken in different countries” via http://bonkersworld.net/… and pleatedjeans see picture on the right, and yes, that is some kind of humour (some followers on Twitter thought that it was serious…)
- “Read before you cite” http://arxiv.org0212043 … ”only about 20% of citers read the original” via
Daniel_Luzer‘s post ”No One Really Reads Academic Papers” http://washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/… - “We Must Stop the Avalanche of Low-Quality Research” http://chronicle.com/…
- “A Tax That May Change the Trading Game” http://nytimes.com/…
- “The long-run gains of not mixing genders in high-school classes” http://voxeu.org/…
- “Data Without Context Tells a Misleading Story” http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/.. via inactinique
- “Scientific publishing: Changing Nature” http://www.economist.com/babbage/ … via costofknowledge
- “Our Absurd Fear of Fat” http://nytimes.com/… and “Thin scientists say it’s unhealthy to be fat” http://andrewgelman.com/… by
StatModeling - “We Paid for the Scientific Research, So Let’s See It” http://nytimes.com/… via frenchrh
- “If postdoctoral life is about playing by the rules, what are the rules?” http://guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/…
- “The Big Banks: Too Complex To Manage?” http://stlouisfed.org/publications/…
- “How to make a scientific result disappear” http://politicalmethodology.wordpress.com/… based on http://newyorker.com/reporting/… (on the “decline effect”) via
Rbloggers - “The coming R&D crash” http://washingtonpost.com/wonkblog/… via
MargRev - “The trouble with ‘science’” http://guardian.co.uk/science/the-h-word/… via
tomroudsquintar andcynorrhodon - “A Nation Of Gamblers: Real Estate Speculation And American History” http://nber.org/w18825 via pkedrosky and econoclaste
- “The Dumbassification of Academia” http://secondlanguage.blogspot.dk/… and http://secondlanguage.blogspot.dk/…
- “To save science, try celebrating ‘high quality ignorance’” http://arstechnica.com/science/… by
kenfisher - Found by
TimHarford ”Ha! Dilbert takes a macroeconomics course. Marvellous.” http://search.dilbert.com/…

- (England and Wales) “Court of Appeal bans Bayesian probability (and Sherlock Holmes)” http://understandinguncertainty.org/… via
haggismaths andundunc - “Chartoons are disinformation design, designed to distract rather than inform” by
EdwardTufte see http://adage.com/article/adagestat/… - “Are women really more talkative than men?” http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/… via
temptoetiam - “The Problem with Our Data Obsession” http://technologyreview.com/… via
johnmyleswhite andanthonyha - “Linear vs. combinatoric social science” http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/l-science/ … (not sure that I understood that post)
- “Good Problems To Solve In Data Science” http://dataenthusiast.com/… via prismatic and chlalanne
- [free ebook] “An introduction to data science”http://jsresearch.net/groups/teachdatascience/… via http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/… and Rbloggers
- “Origins of Religiousness: The Role of Natural Disasters” http://superiorw.blogspot.ca/… via milanv and sanderwagnerbased on http://papers.ssrn.com/id=2221859 …
- “How well can adolescents really judge risk?” http://journal.sjdm.org/… via
farnamstreet - “Not Taking Time Off” http://chronicle.com/… indeed… via
yusunbin - “Statistics Done Wrong” http://refsmmat.com/… via
@msgbi
La nouvelle pour les francophones, c’est
- l’arrivée d’un joli blog d’économie http://frogonomics.wordpress.com à suivre aussi sur Twitter via le compte FrogonomicsBlog avec par exemple http://frogonomics.wordpress.com/2013/… Bernard Salanié est de retour dans le monde des blogs ! via FrogonomicsBlog Blogizmo et Adelaigue
sinon toujours plusieurs posts intéressants, en français,
- “Être un scientifique branché” http://sciencepresse.qc.ca/blogue/…par
ABonvoisin surSciencePresse - [video] “Quand l’Europe sauve ses banques, qui paye ?” http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos…
- “L’université française, bateau ivre” http://iffresblog.com/… par Alain Trannoy
- « plusieurs de mes étudiants de maîtrise et doctorat se demandent si ça vaut la peine de devenir prof» http://ledevoir.com/societe/education/… via
syldupo - “Le logiciel libre pour sortir de la crise” http://ledevoir.com/societe/education/…via
Mlle_Titam (le “lobby de l’industrie du logiciel libre” a encore frappé) - “Ce sont les chercheurs qui font de la recherche et non les universités” http://ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/… via boupi12
- “Transformer les médias” http://acrimed.org/article4011… par Henri Maler, via
LiseBouvet etacrimed_info - “PISA,PIRLS,TIMSS : compétences et connaissances” http://pedrocordoba.blog.lemonde.fr/… (1/3), http://pedrocordoba.blog.lemonde.fr/… (2/3) puis http://pedrocordoba.blog.lemonde.fr/ … (3/3) via rboulle
- “Français versus Québécois” http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/… par Pierre Chaigneau, via
interculturel - sur les élections en Italie, ”Wäre es da nicht doch einfacher, die Regierung löste das Volk auf und wählte ein anderes?” (Bethold Brecht) http://huffingtonpost.fr/… par
guybirenbaum
Did I miss something ?
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