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This week, I read a very interesting post, on a question I keep asking myself,[scientists] "Credibility, bias, and the perils of having too much fun" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/doing-good-science/… by docfreeride"If you’re a regular reader of this blog (or, you know, attentive at all to the world around you), you will have noticed that scientific knowledge is built by human beings, creatures that, even on the job, resemble other humans more closely than they do Mr. Spock or his Vulcan conspecifics. When an experiment yields really informative results, most human scientists don’t cooly raise an eyebrow and murmur “Fascinating.” Instead, you’re likely to see a reactions somewhere on the continuum between big smiles, shouts of delight, and full-on end zone happy-dance. You can observe human scientists displaying similar emotional responses in other kinds of scientific situations, too — say, for example, when they find the fatal flaw in a competitor’s conclusion or experimental strategy." (to be continued...)a great cartoon,ah ah, awesome! RT ritholtz "No, but..."and as usual, a series of writings worth reading,"Bayesian vs. Frequentist in Practice" http://eranraviv.com/blog/…"Post-publication peer review: How it (sometimes) really works" http://andrewgelman.com/…"I'll be brave after I'm tenured" http://neurodojo.blogspot.ca/… via tylercowen"I don't like doing this, but I need to for tenure. I can't fight the good fight for change if I don't have tenure. Once I have tenure, things will be different." (to be continued...)"Labor Issues in Sci-Fi and Fantasy" http://wired.com/underwire/… via msgbi"Economics’ Ups and Downs" http://nytimes.com/…"The theory of comparative advantage is overrated" by tylercowen on MargRev 's blog http://marginalrevolution.com/…"Death by PowerPoint" https://fr.slideshare.net/kasidyray/… via http://ritholtz.com/blog/…"Weather Channel Now Also Forecasts What You'll Buy" http://online.wsj.com/article/… see"What does the video game Donkey Kong have in common with your investment portfolio?" http://ft.com/intl/cms/s/ … via phil_waechter[citation cartel] "How Scholars Hack the World of Academic Publishing Now" http://theatlantic.com/technology/archive/ … by yayitsrob via jaanapuukka"Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?" http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013…"Should I Open this Email?" http://kraut.hciresearch.org/sites/kraut.hciresearch.org/…"Why it is difficult to get a reliable estimate of the rate of rape" http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/… by CarlBialik via analyticbridge[free ebook] "Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View" http://stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/… via siah"Political Scientists Are Lousy Forecasters" http://nytimes.com/… (a 2012 post, discovered via raulpacheco)"Resorting to luxury" http://economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/… seeTattoos from an economic perspective http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/… "getting a tattoo is an irreversible investment""Academics and blogging" http://andrewgelman.com/2013/…"Ars conjectandi, three hundred years on" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…"Burn The Schools" http://forbes.com/sites/pascalemmanuelgobry/ … by pegobry"There’s something we can all agree on: school sucks. Kids don’t like to go. But parents also think schools suck. Most parents aren’t happy with their kids’ school. Most parents think the state of schools at large is deteriorating. If there’s one thing everyone agrees on, it’s that there are problems in education. And you know what? We’re right." (to be continueed....)"When it comes to advertising, the Internet is at war with itself." http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/…"Nearly 20% Of Scientists Contemplate Moving Overseas Due In Part To Sequestration" http://huffingtonpost.com/… by samsteinHP via tomroud"Big Data and Big Business: Should statisticians join in?" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…"Road to the Future Paved With Data Literacy" http://wired.com/insights/ … by __dave"Data Mining Is a Risky Business" http://descrier.co.uk/technology/… by bambenek"We Have Met the Enemy, and It Is Us" http://genetics.org/… via noahWG ewencallaway and tomroud"Keep It Simple, Stupid: Math Doesn’t Have to Be “Complex”" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/… by AdamJKucharski"When we go to the cinema, we expect certain things of big-screen scientists. Most of us will get annoyed if a film gets its basic facts wrong, for example. Directors are aware of this, so generally try to avoid schoolboy errors. After all, nobody wants to get pulled up on accuracy by a young child. Yet according to David Kirby, in his book Lab Coats in Hollywood, filmmakers believe that some inaccuracies are necessary. They think that without certain (incorrect) stereotypes – like bubbling test tubes in a lab – the audience won’t buy into the story. The “inaccurate-but-necessary stereotype” crops up in other media too." (to be continued...)"The perils of sitting down" http://economist.com/news/science-and-technology/ … via ElementsMatter"Use this chart at your own peril" on @junkcharts's blog http://junkcharts.typepad.com/… via Biff_Bruise and statisticsblog"Computational Economics: Help for the Underestimated Undergraduate" http://repec.org/sce2004/ …"With its early focus on algorithms, computational economics seemed well-suited for a relatively small group of graduate students and unlikely to have much impact on undergraduates. However, that is changing as we are discovering that computational economics provides an opportunity to move away from too much use of the lecture-exam paradigm and more use of a laboratory-paper paradigm in teaching undergraduate economics. This opens the door for more creative activity on the part of the students by giving them models developed by previous generations and challenging them to modify those models. The modifications can be altering the models to make them applicable to the student’s interest or finding weaknesses in the model that can be strengthened by changes in the structure of the model. In the process the students become much more involved in their own education." (to be continued...)"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" http://dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/…"Mom, Dad, Sorry I Was So Expensive" http://bloomberg.com/news/ …[maps] "American Vice: Mapping the 7 Deadly Sins" http://wired.com/culture/… see"Why the word 'sustainability' should be banned" http://theconversation.com/its … by DougKingConsult"Economists Need to Admit When They’re Wrong" http://bloomberg.com/news/…"Breast Sizes Relating to Countries" http://targetmap.com/ … seeand just to make it even "The Penis Size Worldwide" http://targetmap.com/… seeet quelques articles en francais,"L'axe de rotation du web a changé !" http://affordance.typepad.com/weblog/… par affordanceinfo via AymericPontier"Depuis trente ans, les inégalités explosent. Comme au XIXe siècle, mieux vaut hériter que travailler" http://telerama.fr/idees/…"Comment réduire les files d'attente au parc d'attraction?" http://blog.francetvinfo.fr/classe-eco/… par adelaigue (via eco, pas théorie des files d'attente)"Pourquoi en France les couvertures de livres sont-elles si sobres?" http://slate.fr/story … avec l'improbable https://youtu.be/NpAu67_um18 Did I miss something?