One very interesting – not to say disturbing – post, this week
- “2012 — The year of bank fraud” on felixsalmon‘s blog blogs.reuters.com/…
and as usual, a lot of interesting posts and articles, here and there,
- on “dyslexia in the graduate community” timeshighereducation.co.uk …
- “Studying Economics Turns You Into a Liar” theatlantic.com/… by jhweissmann via economicsinfo the working paper is uam.es/…
- “Why aren’t there more retractions in business and economics journals?” retractionwatch.wordpress.com/… see also aebrjournal.org/…
- “Critique of Connectivism” andycoverdale/… by andycoverdale
- Infographics (en English) “25 mejores países del Mundo en ciencia” ticsyformacion.com/…
- on the “adequacy of scholars’ training” timeshighereducation.co.uk/ … “many are little or no better qualified than those they are teaching“
- “The global diversity of birds in space and time” nature.com/…
- “Banks are [officially] above the law” financialsense.com/…
- Excel and operational risk wiscnews.com/… “operator error’ resulted in a spreadsheet underestimating the total cost” (about $400,0000) another example of operational risk knoxnews.com/ … “one account wasn’t correctly linked into an Excel spreadsheet” want more spreadsheet operation risk stories ? eusprig.org/…
- “What if We Made Fewer Ph.D.’s?” chronicle.com/…
- is that legitimate to use probability in trials ? maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar/… by Laurence Tribe in 1971
- thomas.loc.gov/… when a “breakthrough in mathematics in the theory of vector bundles” is discussed at House of Representatives
- “Assault Deaths Within the United States” on kjhealy‘s blog kieranhealy.org/… via obouba
- “November 2012 was the fifth-warmest November since records began in 1880” ncdc.noaa.gov/ …

- “After Libor, arguments against financial regulation are a joke” newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/…
- “Early death more likely in solo artists” bbc.co.uk/news/…via PolluxeBlog and “Dying to be famous: retrospective cohort study of rock and pop star mortality” bmjopen.bmj.com/…
- “Credibility Ranking of Tweets during High Impact Events” precog.iiitd.edu.in/… via ritholtz
- “Why did no one see the crisis coming?” skidelskyr.com/… “Models Behaving Badly” by Robert Skidelsky
- “In a World Full of Risk, Why Are Investors So Calm?” businessweek.com/…
- “some students enrol in economics because they want to study something that seems useful, but…” by franceswoolley worthwhile.typepad.com…
- “R in Insurance Conference”, London, 15 July 2013 lamages.blogspot.co.uk/…
- “Surviving a plane crash is surprisingly common” boingboing.net/… “look at only the worst accidents the overall survival rate was 76.6%“
- “Could machine-learning algorithms help debunk Twitter rumors before they spread?” slate.com/… via ThaddeusKTSim and lauram
- “amazing ignorant people” http://dilbert.com/… “who don’t understand economics, but talk about it anyway”
- “Quitting email is good for your heart and makes you more productive” ics.uci.edu/… via dailymail.co.uk/ …
- “The scam busters” economist.com/news/ … “How antitrust economists are getting better at spotting cartels” via bigdata
- “Why don’t bad ideas ever die?” washingtonpost.com/ … by ritholtz
- “The costs of extreme weather for the European transport systems” vtt.fi/inf/…
- “BMJ’s Christmas issue” bmj.com/…“Why Rudolph’s nose is red” via arstechnica.com/… and bmj.com/… “The tooth fairy and malpractice”
- “Possible Role of Resource Requirements and Academic Career-Choice Risk on Gender Differences” plosone.org/… via SH_lelabo
- in the U.K. “£9,000 fees putting a generation of boys off university ” independent.co.uk/… see also guardian.co.uk/…
- “Predictive modeling is increasingly proving its worth in the (P&C) insurance industry” towerswatson.com/…
- “Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” healthmetricsandevaluation.org/… e.g. cancer death rates
- “Life decisions -marriage, divorce, attending university- may be influenced by how long people believe thy will live” ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…
- “Statisticians: Guardians of Democracy” sph.umich.edu/… via community.amstat.org/… and stat110
- “No, dogs don’t have to be bilingual in Montreal” cbc.ca/news/…
Toujours quelques documents en français,
- En France, “capital scolaire des membres des comités exécutifs du CAC 40” opesc.org/analyses/… (tenant compte du cumul)
- “Salaire des enseignants (primaire et secondaire) européens ?” lemonde.fr/societe/…
- “Mes conditions de travail” dans une université française par coulmont nouvel épisode coulmont.com/…
- “les banques échappent-elles à tout contrôle démocratique ?” atlantico.fr/…
- « Messieurs les banquiers, à vous de couper les premiers » sur l’excellent blog de Karine_Berger alternatives-economiques.fr/…
- séparation des banques, via mediatheque.lesoir.be/…