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Three very interesting posts, including an old published paper, discovered this week end"When failure becomes invisible, difference between failure and success may also become invisible" http://youarenotsosmart.com/… on "survivor bias"On wine testing, and rankings, http://online.wsj.com/article/… "A Hint of Hype, A Taste of Illusion", by lmlodinow very interesting"Subjectivism, a reply in defence of classical actuarial methods" http://actuaries.org.uk/system/… (be gentle, it's a 1976 paper) via J_P_Boucher e.g. "Risk theory is a rather esoteric branch of actuarial theory ... The practical actuary, however, finds that he hardly ever uses this theory"but there were still at least a dozen of post worth reading, here and there"A Tale of Two Cultures: Qualitative and Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences" http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/ … by mkeeks via NGhoussoub"When Numbers Mislead" http://nytimes.com/… via StacyDVanDeveer "averages can be misleading when a distribution is heavily skewed..."[bible] "Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research" http://nsa.gov/public_info… via http://wired.com/threatlevel/…"The future of physics: Beyond the numbers" http://economist.com/news/books-and-arts/… via paulblaser[R] nice ! http://statcompute.wordpress.com/… comparing snow, multicore and (standard) lapply with R"US stands out as a rich country where a growing minority can’t afford food" http://pewresearch.org/fact-tank/… via paleofuture see"Richard von Mises and the “problem of two races”: A statistical satire in 1934" http://sciencedirect.com/… via http://images.math.cnrs.fr/…"How to Really March Against Monsanto" http://fancybeans.com/blog/… via boraz"Misinformation can be beautiful too" http://ft.com/intl/cms/… by TimHarford so true"Still Not Significant" http://mchankins.wordpress.com/… by mc_hankins"“Art is long, life is short,” goes the saying. Scholarship and scientific research suffer much the same condition" http://timeshighereducation.co.uk/comment/…"The science of tornado prediction: can technology keep us safe from future storms?" http://.theverge.com/…"The Odds of Disaster: An Economist's Warning on Global Warming" http://pbs.org/newshour/…"On terrorist probabilities" http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/…"Curse of reading" http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/… "You read a book and a couple of years later you’ve not only forgotten the substance of the story""These 31 charts will destroy your faith in humanity" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/ … by bradplumer including that nice "People around the world are becoming just as lazy as the French""his wife reminded him of after it began to attract public attention to remember to comb his hair" http://boston.com/news/science/blogs… via kinggary see also the interesting "The conduct of science and mathematics is a process, not (just) a result" http://susan-stepney.blogspot.co.uk/… via msgbigood to know ! http://journals.cambridge.org/… "Peer-review practices of psychological journals: The fate of published articles, submitted again""Why scoops and objectivity matter less and less — because context is everything" http://paidcontent.org/ … by mathewi via jonathanstray"Compare your commute time to the rest of America’s" http://io9.com/5988852/ … with rtg0nzalez's awesome maps, see e.g."How to formally cite a blog post" http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/… see also http://inputs.wordpress.com/…"Why is a cockroach harder to kill than a zombie?" http://io9.com/ … by einglisarkell see also http://io9.com/…"The banking crisis as a giant carry trade gone wrong" http://voxeu.org/article/… via TeraEuro and MarkThoma"How To Survive the Economic Apocalypse" http://io9.com/ …"In 1949, He (Norbert Wiener) Imagined an Age of Robots" http://nytimes.com/…"Writers and artists died at 79. Academics (including economists) survived until 82 on average" http://bbc.co.uk/news/… via conradhackett"Why Do I Teach?" http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/… "What's the point of higher education?" via geekosophe and g_coqui"Smart Phones, Dumb Laws" http://foreignpolicy.com/articles/ …"The discount rate illusion" http://economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/..."'Cheating' Can Be An Effective Learning Strategy" http://npr.org/blogs/… by tanialombrozo via edXOnline"Websites Vary Prices, Deals Based on Users' Information" http://online.wsj.com/article/… via mrhonner"Why hiring academics should not be left to other academics" http://timeshighereducation.co.uk/comment/…avec quelques billets et articles en francaisRichard von Mises (http://fr.wikipedia.org/… frère de Ludwig) et le "probléme de 2 races" http://images.math.cnrs.fr/… en 1934 (merci francbelge)sur la gestion de portefeuille, en 2008 http://agefi.fr/articles/… « La 'Value at Risk' a supplanté la volatilité »via monachollet "Il est impossible de deviner si un cerveau appartient à un homme ou une femme" http://lemonde.fr/societe/article/…"Les meilleurs blogues de science en français" via paslap en ligne sur http://multim.com/367"La confiance dans la science chute-t-elle ?" quand PasseurSciences discute avec Yves Gingras, professeur à l'UQAM, http://passeurdesciences.blog.lemonde.fr/…"Les défis mathématiques du Monde: l'énigme du parking" http://lemonde.fr/sciences/video/ … via recherch0ns (épisode 10)"Les actuaires face à leurs responsabilités" http://argusdelassurance.com/a-la-une/… via flimoge"Pour un Américain, Montréal est vraiment le paradis du vélo" http://ledevoir.com/opinion/blogues/… via fdaudens cf http://bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/ …"Transparence dans les liens entre laboratoires et tous les professionnels de santé grâce à Internet ?" http://pcinpact.com/news/… par reesmarcDid I miss something ?