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This week, as usual, there is much more to read somewhere else than on my own blog."Average number of languages spoken in different countries" via http://bonkersworld.net/… and pleatedjeans see picture on the right, and yes, that is some kind of humour (some followers on Twitter thought that it was serious...)"Read before you cite" http://arxiv.org0212043 … "only about 20% of citers read the original" via Daniel_Luzer's post "No One Really Reads Academic Papers" http://washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/…"We Must Stop the Avalanche of Low-Quality Research" http://chronicle.com/…"A Tax That May Change the Trading Game" http://nytimes.com/…"The long-run gains of not mixing genders in high-school classes" http://voxeu.org/…"Data Without Context Tells a Misleading Story" http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/.. via inactinique"Scientific publishing: Changing Nature" http://www.economist.com/babbage/ … via costofknowledge"Our Absurd Fear of Fat" http://nytimes.com/… and "Thin scientists say it’s unhealthy to be fat" http://andrewgelman.com/… by StatModeling"We Paid for the Scientific Research, So Let’s See It" http://nytimes.com/… via frenchrh"If postdoctoral life is about playing by the rules, what are the rules?" http://guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/…"The Big Banks: Too Complex To Manage?" http://stlouisfed.org/publications/…"How to make a scientific result disappear" http://politicalmethodology.wordpress.com/… based on http://newyorker.com/reporting/… (on the "decline effect") via Rbloggers"The coming R&#38;D crash" http://washingtonpost.com/wonkblog/… via MargRev"The trouble with 'science'" http://guardian.co.uk/science/the-h-word/… via tomroud squintar  and cynorrhodon"A Nation Of Gamblers: Real Estate Speculation And American History" http://nber.org/w18825  via pkedrosky and econoclaste"The Dumbassification of Academia" http://secondlanguage.blogspot.dk/… and http://secondlanguage.blogspot.dk/…"To save science, try celebrating 'high quality ignorance'" http://arstechnica.com/science/… by kenfisherFound by TimHarford "Ha! Dilbert takes a macroeconomics course. Marvellous." http://search.dilbert.com/…(England and Wales) "Court of Appeal bans Bayesian probability (and Sherlock Holmes)" http://understandinguncertainty.org/… via haggismaths and undunc“Chartoons are disinformation design, designed to distract rather than inform” by EdwardTufte see http://adage.com/article/adagestat/…"Are women really more talkative than men?" http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/… via temptoetiam"The Problem with Our Data Obsession" http://technologyreview.com/… via johnmyleswhite and anthonyha"Linear vs. combinatoric social science" http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/l-science/ … (not sure that I understood that post)"Good Problems To Solve In Data Science" http://dataenthusiast.com/… via prismatic and chlalanne[free ebook] "An introduction to data science"http://jsresearch.net/groups/teachdatascience/… via http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/… and Rbloggers"Origins of Religiousness: The Role of Natural Disasters" http://superiorw.blogspot.ca/… via milanv and sanderwagnerbased on http://papers.ssrn.com/id=2221859 …"How well can adolescents really judge risk?" http://journal.sjdm.org/… via farnamstreet"Not Taking Time Off" http://chronicle.com/… indeed... via yusunbin"Statistics Done Wrong" http://refsmmat.com/… via @msgbiLa nouvelle pour les francophones, c'estl'arrivée d'un joli blog d'économie http://frogonomics.wordpress.com  à suivre aussi sur Twitter via le compte FrogonomicsBlog avec par exemple  http://frogonomics.wordpress.com/2013/… Bernard Salanié est de retour dans le monde des blogs ! via FrogonomicsBlog Blogizmo et Adelaiguesinon toujours plusieurs posts intéressants, en français,"Être un scientifique branché" http://sciencepresse.qc.ca/blogue/…par ABonvoisin sur SciencePresse[video] "Quand l'Europe sauve ses banques, qui paye ?" http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos…"L’université française, bateau ivre" http://iffresblog.com/… par Alain Trannoy« plusieurs de mes étudiants de maîtrise et doctorat se demandent si ça vaut la peine de devenir prof» http://ledevoir.com/societe/education/… via syldupo"Le logiciel libre pour sortir de la crise" http://ledevoir.com/societe/education/…via Mlle_Titam (le "lobby de l'industrie du logiciel libre" a encore frappé)"Ce sont les chercheurs qui font de la recherche et non les universités" http://ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/… via boupi12"Transformer les médias" http://acrimed.org/article4011… par Henri Maler, via LiseBouvet et acrimed_info"PISA,PIRLS,TIMSS : compétences et connaissances" http://pedrocordoba.blog.lemonde.fr/… (1/3), http://pedrocordoba.blog.lemonde.fr/… (2/3) puis http://pedrocordoba.blog.lemonde.fr/ … (3/3) via rboulle"Français versus Québécois" http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/… par Pierre Chaigneau, via interculturelsur les élections en Italie, "Wäre es da nicht doch einfacher, die Regierung löste das Volk auf und wählte ein anderes?" (Bethold Brecht) http://huffingtonpost.fr/… par guybirenbaumDid I miss something ?