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A nice post on statistics and codes, that I read this week"Statisticians and computer scientists – if there is no code, there is no paper" http://simplystatistics.org/… via walkingrandomlyand till a lot of interesting posts"It is a pretty great time to be a geek in education" http://girlsaregeeks.com/… on GirlsAreGeeks's blog"Putting New Wine into Old Bottles" http://papers.ssrn.com/ … "Investigation of the Effect of Newcomers on Cooperation in a Trust Social Dilemma""The Mystery of Curry" http://slate.com/… "It turns out we’ve been eating the spiced dish for a lot longer than anyone ever imagined.""Bayesian vs. Frequentist: Is there any "there" there?" http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.ca/…"I Pick, Something That Ends in ‘N’" http://nytimes.com/… ("36% newborn boys whose names end in N") via http://andrewgelman.com/… and blogizmo"The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study" http://arxiv.org/0907.0455  via ritholtz"Hard to Put Red-Light Violations Under a Lens" http://online.wsj.com/… by CarlBialik a.k.a. the Numbers Guy"Legitimacy of citations in publishing" http://ceon.rs12122.pdf  "the case of proliferation of papers" via http://www.rsc.org/… and J_P_Boucher"From fight against polio to fixing education, what's missing is often good measurement and commitment to follow data" http://online.wsj.com/…"Is college education really expanding ?" http://crookedtimber.org/… by John Quiggin via MarkThoma"A classical measure of evidence for general null hypotheses" by Alexandre G. Patriota http://arxiv.org/1201.0400 "So-called value-at-risk models (VaR) blend science and art" http://economist.com//393171"The Placebo Phenomenon" http://harvardmagazine.com/…"The power and the terror of Irrational Expectation" http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.fr/ … by Noahpinion"What's wrong with drinking in public?" (in Canada and U.S) http://worthwhile.typepad.com/…  by franceswoolley"Patterns of Literacy among U.S. Students" http://futureofchildren.org/… via http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.be/…"The future of academic publishing" http://mcgilldaily.com/…"What the Open Access movement is all about""A drop in the jet stream sent temperatures across the United States plummeting..."  http://blog.usa.gov/…"The university professor is always white" http://guardian.co.uk/… "and a man" http://guardian.co.uk/ …"Keep it simple, avoid the pitfalls" http://washingtonpost.com/… by ritholtz"When Economists Agree, Start Worrying" http://online.wsj.com/…"Revolution Hits the Universities" http://nytimes.com/… via ‏simplystats"what is the most important concept information technology has developed?" http://geek-and-poke.com/…avec quelques billets en français, cette semaine"Retraites en France: perspectives 2020, 2040 et 2060 " http://www.cor-retraites.fr  revu sur http://alternatives-economiques.fr/…beau billet d'économie de l'assurance http://blog.francetvinfo.fr/… "L'assurance obligatoire des loyers est-elle une bonne idée?" par adelaigue"les blogues de science en français"http://www.sciencepresse.qc.ca/… par paslap avec les voisins tomroud et goulu"Le sondage de trop" par Alain Garrigou http://blog.mondediplo.net/…quand tomroud n'est pas content (et il y a de quoi)... "Deviendrons-nous débiles en lisant le Monde" http://tomroud.cafe-sciences.org/ …