Following previous posts on this blog (# 46 and 47), a couple of articles that are worth reading,
- The end of the Reinhart-Rogoffing story, with interesting some posts, e.g. “Reinhart/Rogoff-gate isn’t the first time austerians have used bad data” http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog…, “The Math Errors That Slip Through the Crack” http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/… , “What next for economic journal publishing after Reinhart-Rogoff” http://economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/… via TimHarford , “Reading Reinhart-Rogoff On Reinhart-Rogoff” http://social-europe.eu/…, a discussion “Should we have less faith in economic studies?” http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/… with
Neil_Irwin andbradplume, a technical detailed study, “I analyzing the data set used by Reinhart and Rogoff and by Herndon Ash and Pollin in their critique...” http://rjwaldmann.blogspot.ca/…, and a brilliant summary “Numbers don’t lie” http://dilbert.com/… via msgbi nachrichtenlos by Dilbert
and, as usual, several interesting posts, here and there
- “Behavioral Finance Explains Bubbles” http://techcrunch.com/… via
Noahpinion - “Data are no good without theory” http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/… by
ezraklein - “The Signal and the Silence” http://city-journal.org/… “When is prediction useful—and when is it dangerous?” via
mattstat - “Twitter is becoming your first source of investment news” http://washingtonpost.com/business/… by
ritholtz viapkedrosky - [free ebook] Bruce Hansen’s Econometrics textbook http://ssc.wisc.edu/~bhansen/… via DEAGiles
- “How Much Should We Trust Economics?” http://npr.org/blogs/money/… “on epistemological issues in economics” via
EconomistHulk - “A brief history of airline software screwups” http://wired.co.uk/news/… via Hgibier
- [network] altwire.utne.com/rt_influencer/economics_v3/network … “Influencer Network – Economy Raw Feed”, nice actually (and proud, and suspicious, to learn that I might be an influencer)
- “Why terrorism in the US isn’t much more frequent.” http://smh.com.au/world/… via
wilsondasilva - [data] “The Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey” (stats) http://ecb.europa.eu/… via http://rue89.com/rue89-eco/…
- “Bayesianly Justifiable and Relevant Frequency Calculations for the Applied Statistician” (a.k.a. Rubin (1984)) http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS/…
- [American humor] “Good thing this is Canada” by
elianejazmin
- “David Dobbs on science writing: ‘hunt down jargon and kill it’ ” http://guardian.co.uk/science/… via curtrice
- [R] “Streets of France” http://statistik-stuttgart.de/… or “Streets of Ireland” https://gist.github.com/davidcoallier/…
- [logic] “You’re the best” http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2952 via
mart1oeil and ZachWeiner - “The Debt We Shouldn’t Pay” http://nybooks.com/articles/…
- “Why some people see fewer colors than others and why women are more likely to be super seers” http://scienceline.org/… via JenLucPiquant
- “authorization” http://xkcd.com/1200/ so true
et comme toujours, une poignée d’articles en français
- “L’université est colonisée” http://ledevoir.com/societe/… “Une idéologie perverse a transformé l’étudiant en «client»” via DWoundedknee VeroMato
- “Faut-il faire un doctorat ?” http://lemonde.fr/orientation-scolaire/… via lemondefr et AlexisMougeolle
- “Vérifier ses intuitions en probabilités” http://blogs.univ-poitiers.fr/laurentsignac/… par
laurentsignac
Did I miss something ?