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Some writings worth reading, this week,"Economist Bruce McCullough Continues a Largely Solitary Push to Require Replication in Research" http://online.wsj.com/article/… via rubin"How algorithms rule the world" http://guardian.co.uk/science/…"How to think about papers published in low-grade journals?" http://andrewgelman.com/… on StatModeling's blog, following http://culturalcognition.net/blog/... by Dan Kahan slamming a paper recently published..."Read between the lines. The paper originally was released in 2009 and was published in 2013 in PLOS-One, which is one step above appearing on Arxiv. PLOS-One publishes some good things (so does Arxiv) but it’s the place people place papers that can’t be placed. We can deduce that the paper was rejected by Science, Nature, various other biology journals, and maybe some political science journals as well. I’m not saying you shouldn’t criticize the paper in question, but you can’t really demand better from a paper published in a bottom-feeder journal. Again, just because something’s in a crap journal, doesn’t mean it’s crap; I’ve published lots of papers in unselective, low-prestige outlets. But it’s certainly no surprise if a paper published in a low-grade journal happens to be crap. They publish the things nobody else will touch." [to be continued...]"Good science requires cultivating doubt and finding pleasure in mystery" http://nautil.us/issue/2/uncertainty/ … via NGhoussoub"High cost of free parking and opportunity cost of streets" http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/… via margrev"A mathematical model of 'Gone with the Wind'" http://sciencedirect.com/science/article/… via http://improbable.com/… by MarcAbrahams"Here are the 200 most highly-paid chief executives at U.S. public companies in 2013...." http://nytimes.com/interactive/ … via ritholtz"OLS residuals from a regression" http://davegiles.blogspot.ca/…) on DEAGiles's blog, see"Using Weather Data and Climate Model Output in Economic Analyses of Climate Change" http://reep.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/…"Could Superman Punch Someone Into Space?" http://wired.com/wiredscience/… by rjallain[R] "Fun with random effects in loss reserving" http://pirategrunt.com/… via Rbloggershow much is a 'normal delivery' in the U.S.? http://io9.com/the… and http://nytimes.com/… see e.g."Differential Pricing in Undergraduate Education: Effects on Degree Production by Field" http://www.nber.org/papers/w19183  via margrev"Why Randomness May Not Mean What You Think It Means" http://io9.com/why… via goulu"France Is Shocked, Shocked to Learn That Everybody's a Sinner" http://artgoldhammer.blogspot.ca/…"Were the Victorians cleverer than us? The decline in general intelligence estimated from a meta-analysis..." http://ge.tt/api/1/files/…"Without a common language to speak 'a man would be more cheerful with his dog for company than with a foreigner' " http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/…"What’s the Best Moment to Buy a Plane Ticket" http://dx.doi.org/… via http://united-academics.org/magazine/design-technology/… a bit different from http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/1980 "The Boob-Resource Hypothesis: Why Is Bigger Better?" http://storiented.blogspot.ca/… (still via goulu) see academic version http://dx.doi.org/10.1371…"Unprecedented, high-impact climate extremes during 2001-2010, warmest decade on record" http://library.wmo.int/opac/… see"Hands up if you're fed up of experts thinking they're more 'aware' than us plebs" http://spiked-online.com/newsite/… via mattstat"Self-Sabotage in the Academic Career" http://chronicle.com/article/… via thomroulet"You want to know why revolutions happen? Because little by little by little things get worse and worse." http://chrisblattman.com/?p=9978 "Bets, Portfolios, and Belief Revelation" http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/… by bryan_caplan"The Economics of ‘Slut-Shaming’" http://theumlaut.com/ … by anjiecast"In August 1996, British civil engineers ceased to be officially boring" http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair… via MarcAbrahams's http://improbable.com/…"'Normal' Barbie By N. Lamm Shows Us What Dolls Might Look Like If Based On Actual Women" http://huffingtonpost.com … see"Data Journalism is improving – fast" http://guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/…"Grandparents influence where you are on the social ladder" http://ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/… via WardPlunet"Good American Liberals vs. Violent European Radicals" http://patrolmag.com/2013/07/02/david-sessions/ … via CoreyRobin"‏If they were a country, America's hospitals would be the world’s 16th-largest econom" http://economist.com/news/business/ …[prism and nsa] via 57unet toujours quelques articles et billets en français, dont un fabuleux "augmentation de 50%" traduit en "a doublé", repris par de (trop) nombreux journalistes"La nationalité en Algérie" http://blog.bnf.fr/gallica/?p=7164 "Mérite et justice sociale" http://rationalitelimitee.wordpress.com/…[maths et journalisme] découvert via Assia_H et RhaimfulAvec un peu de retard, je suis allé voir sur https://politis.fr/Deux-fois-plus-de-SDF,22949.htmlcela dit si on va sur http://humanite.fr/search/..., on retrouve la référence,mais le titre de la page a changé (mais pas le nom complet le-nombre-de-sdf-multiplie-par-2-en-10-ans-selon-l-545106)Cela dit, les amateurs pourront aussi écouter http://videos.tf1.fr/infos/2013/141-500-personnes-sans-abri-le-nombre-de-sdf-a-double-en-10-ans-8086469.htmlDid I miss something ?