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Some writings worth reading,"You Know Who Else Collected Metadata? The Stasi." http://propublica.org/article/how…"Women Economists Are Better Forecasters" http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/ … ht @adelaigue"There is no such thing as the banking profession" http://ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/5a024474-9039-…"Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators" http://theatlantic.com/business/archive/… The psychological origins of waiting (… and waiting, and waiting) to workThis fear of being unmasked as the incompetent you “really” are is so common that it actually has a clinical name: impostor syndrome. A shocking number of successful people (particularly women), believe that they haven’t really earned their spots, and are at risk of being unmasked as frauds at any moment. Many people deliberately seek out easy tests where they can shine, rather than tackling harder material that isn’t as comfortable. If they’re forced into a challenge they don’t feel prepared for, they may even engage in what psychologists call “self-handicapping”: deliberately doing things that will hamper their performance in order to give themselves an excuse for not doing well. Self-handicapping can be fairly spectacular: in one study, men deliberately chose performance-inhibiting drugs when facing a task they didn’t expect to do well on. “Instead of studying,” writes the psychologist Edward Hirt, “a student goes to a movie the night before an exam. If he performs poorly, he can attribute his failure to a lack of studying rather than to a lack of ability or intelligence. On the other hand, if he does well on the exam, he may conclude that he has exceptional ability, because he was able to perform well without studying.”"There Is No Demand for Higher Education" http://insidehighered.com//blogs/just-visiting…"The Rising Cost of Not Going to College" http://pewsocialtrends.org/2014/02/ …"Suicide Bomb Trainer in Iraq Accidentally Blows Up His Class" http://nytimes.com/2014/02/11… If there were such a thing, it would probably be rule No. 1 in the teaching manual for instructors of aspiring suicide bombers: Don’t give lessons with live explosives. In what represented a cautionary tale for terrorist teachers, and a cause of dark humor for ordinary Iraqis, a commander at a secluded terrorist training camp north of Baghdad unwittingly used a belt packed with explosives while conducting a demonstration early Monday for a group of militants, killing himself and 21 other members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, army and police officials said. Iraqi citizens have long been accustomed to daily attacks on public markets, mosques, funerals and even children’s soccer games, so they saw the story of the fumbling militants as a dark — and delicious — kind of poetic justice, especially coming amid a protracted surge of violence led by the terrorist group, including a rise in suicide bombings. Just last week a suicide bomber struck a popular falafel shop near the Ministry ofForeign Affairs here, killing several people. On Monday evening Raad Hashim, working the counter at a liquor store near the site of the attack, burst out laughing when he heard the news."Data is data, or are they?" http://stancarey.wordpress.com/2009/…"P values, the 'gold standard' of statistical validity, are not as reliable as many scientists assume." http://nature.com/news/scientific…P values have always had critics. In their almost nine decades of existence, they have been likened to mosquitoes (annoying and impossible to swat away), the emperor's new clothes (fraught with obvious problems that everyone ignores) and the tool of a “sterile intellectual rake” who ravishes science but leaves it with no progeny. One researcher suggested rechristening the methodology “statistical hypothesis inference testing”, presumably for the acronym it would yield. The irony is that when UK statistician Ronald Fisher introduced the P value in the 1920s, he did not mean it to be a definitive test. He intended it simply as an informal way to judge whether evidence was significant in the old-fashioned sense: worthy of a second look. The idea was to run an experiment, then see if the results were consistent with what random chance might produce. Researchers would first set up a 'null hypothesis' that they wanted to disprove, such as there being no correlation or no difference between two groups. Next, they would play the devil's advocate and, assuming that this null hypothesis was in fact true, calculate the chances of getting results at least as extreme as what was actually observed. This probability was the P value. The smaller it was, suggested Fisher, the greater the likelihood that the straw-man null hypothesis was false."It's no secret that tenured professors cause problems in universities" http://nytimes.com/2014/02/ … but "tenure may be a necessary evil" see also, via @gappy3000, "It's worth recalling that tenure was born to protect freedom of speech, not as a reward system" http://news.stanford.edu/s…"Using Twitter to Model the EUR/USD Exchange Rate" http://arxiv.org/1402.1624  via @renaudjf see"Mooconomics" http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.ca/2014/… by @JohnHCochrane"12 Graphics That Contain Everything You Need to Know about Climate Change" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/… by @dbiello e.g.I love what a "newspaper online" can be http://nytimes.com/newsgraphics/… that's awesome"Will the search for self-knowledge through numbers bring greater self-awareness or drive us to ultimate distraction?"http://prospectmagazine.co.uk/…"How much time will it take to reach point X by foot or public transit?" http://geoss.colorado.edu/traveltime/map e.g. in NYCand some thoughts about comsumptionavec un peu de lecture en français,"Twitter pour décloisonner la recherche scientifique" http://franceinter.fr/depeche-twitter… par @abonvoisin (via @mart1oeil)"Banques vs. régulation financière" http://dessousdebruxelles.ellynn.fr/s…"La blogosphère scientifique francophone commencerait-elle à se réveiller ?" http://sciencesenviro.com/2014/02/10/la… de @Sciencesenviro ht @JeremyBouchezDid I miss something?