The Curious Engineer

West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)

2012–2013

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December 2013

  1. Free Markets and Efficiency
  2. “Because she wanted to.”
  3. Weekend blogging -- In Memoriam
  4. A holiday message from the creative class to Richard Florida -- screw you
  5. MOOCs and analogies
  6. More on the complicated politics (racial and otherwise) of the education reform movement
  7. Happy Holidays from XKCD
  8. Christmas from the Archive
  9. More evidence that the NYT feels strongly enough about education to take a stand, not strongly enough to follow the debate
  10. 401(k) plans: a never-ending story
  11. The Shanghai Surprise -- something that people who followed the PISA story closely were already talking about
  12. Our annual Toys-for-Tots post
  13. Divergent and convergent educational outcomes -- the sour grapes effect
  14. Paradigm shift on trade and inequality
  15. Treatments and payback curves
  16. PISA and the original Sputnik moment
  17. A very nonstandard pedagogical example
  18. Weekend blogging -- all auteur, all the time
  19. Passions and Procrustes
  20. And national experiments
  21. Natural Experiments
  22. How did we miss this?
  23. TFA Context -- one interesting table
  24. Equal enforcement of contracts?
  25. Non-linear relation of the day
  26. Good reporting alert
  27. An extraordinary post by Gary Rubinstein on his first year of teaching
  28. Weekend blogging -- auteur edition
  29. Comment on last post
  30. "Carerruption" -- the biggest threat to the education reform movement
  31. "But the Pension Fund Was Just Sitting There"
  32. "A grain of discovery"
  33. Diane Ravitch provides some historical perspective on international math rankings
  34. Fairness and regulation
  35. Happy PISA Day, everybody!
  36. "Up until about a month ago, we all knew what merit pay meant."

November 2013

  1. Weekend blogging -- save this one for late in the day
  2. Putting Arne Duncan's remarks in context
  3. So what am I missing?
  4. "As God as my witness..." is my second favorite Thanksgiving episode line
  5. Equality and Adam Smith
  6. Teacher incentives
  7. You will never guess who I'm quoting...
  8. Education blogging -- Common Core, accountability and the cost of deadwood
  9. Antibiotics: an ever evolving story
  10. Ed reform background reading -- three from Wikipedia
  11. Points to Ponder
  12. Kennedy, Camelot and the danger of myth
  13. Students will little note, nor long remember what was taught here...
  14. More Motley Foolishness -- Hydrogen is safe as a fuel, not as an investment
  15. Pre-existing conditions
  16. 2... 4... 6... 8... Time to disaggregate -- Motley Fool/Netflix Edition
  17. More (Reluctantly Reported) Motley Foolishness
  18. Weekend blogging -- a few more for my to-see list (Truffaut edition)
  19. Weekend blogging -- channeling my inner Sherlock nerd
  20. Common Core and the Law of Large Numbers
  21. Yikes
  22. Just a quick dip of the toe in the water
  23. Distracted Driving
  24. What do these two things have in common?
  25. Weekend blogging -- checking a couple off the list
  26. There is a long history of this type of bad judgement in literature
  27. Twitter's 140 -- the fast and the freshest
  28. Driving versus walking
  29. Service Contracts
  30. Free TV blogging -- subtle signs of a tipping point
  31. Fewer time zones
  32. Harrison Bergeron and the forced equality of Twitter
  33. New Train regulations
  34. Something to keep in mind
  35. Weekend blogging -- Kael and the importance of context
  36. Billionaires in Sweden?
  37. Moral underpinnings of income
  38. Beware of shifting standards -- more fun with the Netflix narrative

October 2013

  1. An under-appreciated consequence of extremely long copyrights
  2. Martians and metadata
  3. Intellectual Property
  4. Rocco Pendola confirms some suspicions I've had about HBO and Netflix
  5. Negotiating costs
  6. Weekend blogging -- supply your own metaphor
  7. Directionality
  8. A Motley Fool uupdate -- the Avengers probably can beat up the Agents of SHIELD
  9. Alternative thoughts
  10. Journalistic decline and GOP dysfunction
  11. Efficient wage markets?
  12. Tactics, Schmactics -- why I don't buy the latest trope on the government shut down
  13. An army of sock puppets
  14. Weekend blogging: spies and fugatives
  15. NYT correction watch: Did Dickens meet Dostoevsky? -- Opinions still differ
  16. Medical Innovation is expensive
  17. Did Andrew Gelman catch me doing something I've complained about other people doing?
  18. The importance of measurement
  19. Deficits and Climate Change
  20. A mean looking kid walking by a row of glass houses with a big ol' bag of rocks
  21. Weekend blogging -- "nudity or the suggestion thereof"
  22. Ecomonies and Pharmacoepidemiology: today's link.
  23. What does a position entail?
  24. An interesting point on redistribution
  25. Solar: a continuing update
  26. The obvious and the obviously obvious
  27. Weekend blogging -- TV spies and war games
  28. Other people get their allusions from classical literature; I use old Superbowl ads.
  29. Electronic currency
  30. Amazing sentence of the day
  31. Orthogonality in political debates
  32. A problem of measurement

September 2013

  1. Charter schools
  2. Weekend blogging -- the political cartoons of Dr. Seuss
  3. Hunger, homelessness and the George Foreman Grill
  4. Reactions to DeLong's piece on Global Warming
  5. Netflix, the Emmys and the power of a happy narrative -- inevitable Motley Fool edition
  6. Why insurance is essential
  7. Getting a handle on the paradox of hunger in a country of abundant cheap food
  8. The enormous difference that $4.45 a day can make
  9. Netflix, the Emmys and the power of a happy narrative
  10. What do the extremely old ultimately die of?
  11. Of course, tuition is out of control. Just look at what they pay these people
  12. For epi people, this This American Life is of special interest
  13. Counter-example
  14. Weekend blogging -- "The Great Man Votes"
  15. Trade reducing labor share of income: paradigm changing if true!
  16. I know Ron Shaich's heart is in the right place, but...
  17. The need for a state
  18. Excellent comment alert
  19. Ways of Measuring Wealth
  20. Health Care Costs
  21. The General Grant quote I was looking for earlier
  22. D&D Monsters
  23. Not sure that Bacharach shouldn't have split this into to two but both halves are worth reading anyway
  24. General Grant on the U.S.-Mexican War
  25. Fiscal responsibility
  26. Weekend blogging -- "Zatoichi and the Chess Expert"
  27. Dilbert
  28. Still more Motley Foolishness
  29. Charter Schools and Hedge Funds
  30. Weekend blogging -- sometimes the least conventional covers turn out to be the most faithful
  31. If you have to ask, you should use the door marked "Morlock"
  32. Excellent Point Alert
  33. This is a really big deal
  34. I didn't realize that it was OK to overstate numbers by an order of magnitude if it made for an interesting conversation
  35. Epidemiology example in tech
  36. Movies! -- some thoughts on television's second best classic movie channel

August 2013

  1. Weekend blogging -- sometimes combination is creation
  2. Joseph was overly and insufficiently harsh with Nicholas Carlson's Mayer profile
  3. On the downside, when I make powerpoints they hardly ever have all that cute animation
  4. More on rank (noun, verb and adjective)
  5. Marissa Mayer: a continuing saga
  6. Stack Ranking Continued
  7. Paul Krugman is not a marketer
  8. Health Care and Complexity
  9. Revisiting the growth fetish (kind of a relief to be agreeing with Felix Salmon again)
  10. Employee ranking
  11. The Great Non-Blackout of 2013
  12. Details Matter
  13. More Motley Foolishness
  14. Paging Mark P
  15. The Pleygo Proposal
  16. Weekend Kael Blogging
  17. New site
  18. The ongoing airplane debate
  19. Just take the old logging trail to Safeway...
  20. Priors
  21. Let me guess, it's like Netflix but with Legos
  22. Social epidemiology of who does not get vaccinated
  23. Climate change and air travel
  24. Government secrecy
  25. Infrastructure that requires no new tech
  26. Film history for fools -- box office disasters
  27. Because that's the way it is with hot trends, they just keep getting bigger and bigger forever!
  28. Weekend blogging -- Anthromorphic Theater
  29. Owning a business in Russia can be tricky, it seems
  30. The word 'metacognitive' is usually a bad sign
  31. Tech companies may lie to you but we never do
  32. Jon Chait has to be pranking us?
  33. The Epidemiology of Laughter
  34. The Totem Pole
  35. At this point, seeing even inaccurate coverage of OTA television seems like a triumph
  36. Metablogging -- stag hunts, misalignment, principal agents and all that jazz
  37. The real challenge of Libertarian populism
  38. Price discrimination at Ralph's
  39. Worst Statistic of the Day
  40. Weekend blogging -- Patents and product testing
  41. "An astonishing act of statistical chutzpah" -- details on the Tony Bennett scandal
  42. The Op-ed no one wanted to print
  43. A final (?) news wrap-up on the Bennett story
  44. Value added testing without a gold standard outcome

July 2013

  1. Stories I should probably be writing about
  2. General versus particular cases
  3. The other side of the ethical failures of the education reform movement
  4. The looting phase of education reform and the other Tony Bennett
  5. Paging Mark P
  6. The obliviousness to the insularity
  7. Term of the day -- "Macro Tourists"
  8. Gold-bugs
  9. Weekend blogging -- an analytic approach to comedy
  10. When news stories (fail to) collide
  11. Netflix thought of the day
  12. Down and Out in Beverly Hills
  13. Chait versus Delong
  14. The Ryan Reynolds Effect
  15. Intellectual property and genes
  16. Nate Silver didn't have a problem with old-style journalist values, but he may have had a problem with the new ones
  17. Personal finance
  18. Personal blogroll -- Rocco Pendola
  19. Credit where credit is due...
  20. Urban Sprawl
  21. Not really movie people...
  22. Safe failures from "Why Are Movies So Bad? Or, The Numbers"
  23. Weekend blogging -- Kael on Directors
  24. Wages
  25. First assume a fairy godmother...
  26. If we just look at climate change, we should do these things. If we take climate change out of the picture we should still do these things
  27. Intellectual property and Marvel
  28. Krugman is on a roll
  29. Relative versus absolute changes
  30. Believe or not, I'm going to tie this in with the Fantastic Four
  31. Call me suspicious...
  32. Weekend blogging -- Listen slowly
  33. Apologist Watch
  34. Data points
  35. I have no doubt these numbers were pulled from someplace other than "thin air"
  36. [Insert joke headline here]
  37. The show business equivalent of a patent troll -- more from the post pretense stage of intellectual property
  38. S&P defense
  39. "Don't you cry for me..."
  40. Intellectual Property and Merit
  41. Straw Stick Men
  42. Weekend blogging -- the surprising overlap between chemistry majors and comic book nerds
  43. The real issue
  44. A very different perspective on the NYC bike share program
  45. A perspective on bike culture
  46. Five... Four... Three... Two...
  47. A side note on Joseph's climate change post...
  48. Corporate term of the day -- FUBAR Promotions
  49. More on climate change
  50. Note to Blogger -- today is not the sixth of July -- updated
  51. Drilling down in the Citi-Bike topic
  52. A defense of the media coverage of citi-bike

June 2013

  1. A quick note on Citi-Bike
  2. Sadly, the follow-up "Betty Boop explains Uncertainty" never made it past the initial sketches
  3. Extrapolating Orwell
  4. Tiger kids
  5. More on IP -- why the Ub Iwerks, Gardner Fox, and Jack Kirby estates aren't worth billions
  6. Measuring the greater fool effect
  7. Patents and Copyrights
  8. Be wary of simple explanations of how carefully developed theory is clearly and absurdly wrong
  9. Intellectual property laws and innovation a DIY post
  10. Rooting for Netflix (no really)
  11. Kevin Spacey has been playing brilliant, manipulative sociopaths for a long time -- another Netflix side note
  12. Actual vs. perceived viewing costs -- side note to the Netflix
  13. Interview with FX President John Landgraf
  14. "Things we no longer see on airplanes" from Mental Floss
  15. Two quotes about Netflix, presented (almost) without comment
  16. Burn Notice and more at Hulu
  17. Weekend blogging -- who are the Becketts in your field and who are the Pinters?
  18. House of Cards -- either already in the black or seriously underperforming
  19. Keep up with West Coast Stat Views on Twitter at @MarkPalko1
  20. Yves Smith with more thoughts on the looting phase of higher education
  21. My feed isn't feeding
  22. Curiously, agressively anti-social
  23. He'll probably get in trouble for saying that
  24. Netflix can never be the next HBO*
  25. A bit of HBO trivia and a couple of take-aways
  26. More on the flack-to-hack ratio
  27. Another news story that's bigger for Netflix than Arrested Development -- and this time in a good way
  28. Four Companies
  29. "If that's such a good idea, why hasn't anyone else done it?"
  30. Neil Gaiman was close -- it's actually two out of four
  31. Ken Levine on big stars and TV pilots
  32. Weekend Kael blogging -- Was Citizen Kane ahead of its time?
  33. Marvel and Motown
  34. High Frequency Trading
  35. Edging away from the genius hypothesis
  36. Anatomy of a spiral
  37. Required Reading
  38. The looting phase of (higher) education reform -- the opposite of cost disease
  39. Thoughts on the NYT's attempt to reboot the Airport franchise
  40. Property Rights
  41. More adventures in intellectual property --- Ghost Rider rides again
  42. When the guys who are in for murder one start arguing about Jane Austen...
  43. Evolution and the breakfast landscape
  44. Matt Yglesias may not be helping his cause
  45. Investment advice from Alfred Hitchcock
  46. "How do you make money doing this?" The answer is simple...
  47. Thoughts on Ray Fisman's much alluded-to charter school article
  48. Give my regards to bean town, but...
  49. Two things you should read in their entirety
  50. Contests big and small
  51. More thoughts on dumping
  52. You can listen to this before I do... if you hurry
  53. Thomas Friedman demonstrates the Roommate Effect
  54. Making hand-to-mouth as difficult as possible
  55. Looting phase in education reform part... [damn, lost count again]
  56. Interconnectivity
  57. A new* kind of poker
  58. Drug Policy

May 2013

  1. Burger King vs. Jack in the Box -- More thoughts on corporate competence
  2. Interesting article in new york times
  3. The (ongoing) War on Data
  4. There are bets then there are bets -- developments in the rabbit ears war
  5. One more of these and I'm back to writing about old TV shows...
  6. More on the looting phase of the education reform movement
  7. In a sane society, this would have been the lead story the day it broke
  8. Ethics and Ayn Rand
  9. The Project Gutenberg Project
  10. Maybe they're hinting at something
  11. Weekend blogging -- Uncle Art's Funland
  12. Spinach is supposed to make you stronger -- Infrastructure and the Kinsley/Krugman fight
  13. Notes on an unwritten paper -- Naive Bayesian Classifiers and Order of Composition
  14. Scandal, metareporting and the dumber-reader theory
  15. Pets
  16. Un-self-awareness at the New Republic -- more Rhee-views
  17. A smart post from Felix Salmon
  18. Maybe he meant the toolbox of some economists...
  19. Weekend Blogging -- Puzzles! Puzzles! Puzzles! (from our side of the pond)
  20. At last a candidate Maureen Dowd can support
  21. "America’s Most Profitable Products"
  22. Affinity cons and the looting phase in education
  23. What the Zuck is wrong NBC?
  24. Journalists vs. Lit Majors
  25. Anti-orthogonality at Freakonomics
  26. I don't have time to discuss this right now but I wanted to make sure I at least had a link
  27. While we're on a literary thread...
  28. I hope I don't get into too much trouble over this
  29. A couple more thoughts on Oregon
  30. Thrillers on Economics -- Updated
  31. The Pauline Kael Rule strikes again
  32. When similar inputs produce radically different outputs -- more on Kickster
  33. Paul Ryan's Coonskin Cap
  34. The hidden costs of being a "fun company"
  35. Favoring the favored
  36. Movie lover alert
  37. Tale of two ad campaigns
  38. Rich versus poor
  39. flippedflippedflippedflippedflippedflippedflippedflippedflippedflippedflippedflippedflippedflippedflippedflippedflippedflippedflipped...
  40. "Segregated lives"
  41. How many people today would refer to 2001 as our "historical yesterdays"?
  42. Weekend Blogging -- Puzzles! Puzzles! Puzzles!
  43. Sleazy but not atypical
  44. One hell of a multiplier
  45. Oregon and Medicaid
  46. It's too late for me to think of a sufficiently sarcastic title
  47. Two education posts of note
  48. The 401(k) world
  49. On the bright side, all those elderly shut-ins won't have to worry about having their flights delayed
  50. Portion sizes

April 2013

  1. Reasons we value a college degree (aside from the obvious)
  2. A break from the Felix-bashing
  3. Free TV blogging -- collateral damage
  4. Weekend blogging -- if you were getting your fitness advice from a 1950 comic book...
  5. Weekend blogging -- TV themes by the otherwise famous
  6. Dangerous synergies
  7. I need to be very careful when I base an argument on NBC's competence
  8. Free TV blogging -- betting against Felix Salmon
  9. The Me Generation -- re-updated
  10. Normally this sort of thing never works
  11. Felix Salmon vs. Chet Kanojia
  12. Terrestrial Superstations
  13. Unemployment and causation
  14. Add Fox to the list of companies that think Felix Salmon is wrong about terrestrial television
  15. Free TV blogging -- results may vary
  16. Note to journalists -- you don't have to believe everything they tell you (business model edition)
  17. Quote of the day
  18. More on statistics in research
  19. Weekend blogging -- Gained in translation
  20. War and research
  21. Trying to wean myself off "hibernate"
  22. Two views of Excel
  23. Swords and Wizardry Appreciation Day: Wow
  24. Swords and Wizardry Appreciation day
  25. Tonight only -- free teleseminar on getting rich by writing for television
  26. From unsupported hypothesis to conventional wisdom
  27. Lesson for Epidemiology
  28. Simply amazing tale of corporate governence
  29. A defense of the envelope method
  30. Risk Aversion
  31. Did Dickens meet Dostoevsky? -- Opinions differ
  32. Coding boot camp
  33. Weekend blogging -- Geoffrey Lewis
  34. The even more indefensible Michelle Rhee
  35. S&W appreciation day
  36. When I say my to-blog list is ever-growing...
  37. Free TV blogging -- suspicion confirmed
  38. I'll be coming back to this...
  39. Stupid, horrible people are not interesting; intelligent, decent people doing stupid, horrible things are.
  40. Why I remain skeptical about fully private health care
  41. The ever growing to-blog list
  42. Swords and Wizardry
  43. Cohort effects
  44. Obesity, genes and environment
  45. Quote(s) of the day
  46. Arthur Godfrey, Marshall McLuhan and the educational topic of the day
  47. Just two more on journalistic tribalism and I'll change the subject
  48. An anecdote on standardized testing
  49. More on journalistic tribalism
  50. Always read the fine print.
  51. More on libertarian priorities
  52. This guy REALLY doesn't like MOOCs

March 2013

  1. Weekend blogging -- 61 seconds from the world's most prolific film composer
  2. A few brief thoughts on Timothy Noah's reaction to the firing of Timothy Noah
  3. Do the connotations of "property" influence the "intellectual property" debate?
  4. Some people just insist on being tied to their possessions
  5. Graham Hill
  6. Recommended Reading
  7. Intellectual Property
  8. New advice column
  9. Libertarianism
  10. Weekend movie blogging -- meta spoilers
  11. 75 years of progress
  12. Wow, just wow!
  13. Cloud computing
  14. Apple, J.C. Penney* and fitness landscapes in everything
  15. If you actually want to close the achievement gap...
  16. Today's vocabulary term is "flack-to-hack ratio"
  17. I apologize if I posted this before...
  18. Weekend movie blogging -- Herman Mankiewicz in Oz
  19. Playing with paper over at You Do the Math
  20. When you hear proposals to control tuition by reducing instruction cost...
  21. The Rise of P-Value
  22. Epidemiology and Truth
  23. Landscapes in everything
  24. Some epidemiology for a change
  25. More weekend work avoidance -- the pleasures of microbudgets
  26. Weekend gaming -- new entries at You Do the Math
  27. Do op-ed writers provide their own hyperlinks?
  28. More on Marissa Mayer
  29. Admittedly, it is a competitive field
  30. Forwarded almost without comment
  31. Educational dilemmas
  32. Things that tempt you to write posts you don't have time for
  33. Another solution
  34. Extremes in student feedback
  35. Like judging an archery contest after they took down the target...

February 2013

  1. More on Yahoo! and flex time
  2. Yahoo! is getting bad press
  3. Health care costs: a never-ending saga
  4. Value added testing
  5. They're just not paying Gelman's preferred currency -- the odd economics of access
  6. Education Research
  7. "More colleges stop giving credit for AP exams"
  8. "Cosma Shalizi - Why Economics Needs Data Mining"
  9. Interesting stats blog
  10. Education blogging of note
  11. Yeah, I'm getting tired of these too
  12. When does original programming make business sense? part 1 -- cable
  13. Weekend cinema buff alert
  14. The best tech writing you'll read this week just might be an article about wheelbarrows
  15. More fun with charts
  16. Thinking about failure and collective amnesia.
  17. Fun with charts
  18. Annals of bad analogies
  19. Imbalance in the infrastructure debate
  20. Sometimes you do it because it is a good idea anyway
  21. Shamisen heroes and free TV

January 2013

  1. Unintended consequences
  2. Paul Krugman on progress
  3. A different take on grades and money from home -- part 1 Hypothesis Shopping
  4. Survivor bias
  5. Health Care spending
  6. More reflections on a study (EDITED)
  7. One more cognitive dissonance post
  8. Alexandria Word Searches -- a new kind of puzzle for the weekend
  9. "Edward Tufte Wants You to See Better"
  10. Just another (incredibly bizarre) data point
  11. Ray Fisman has a new book you might want to check out
  12. Safety Nets and Canada
  13. Stop me if you've heard this one before
  14. Misleading graphics
  15. More thoughts on Education
  16. Hat tip to Yglesias
  17. Felix Salmon on personal finance
  18. Technological stagnation bandwagon
  19. Matt Yglesias -- Defending the indefensible
  20. Sometimes I need to read more clearly
  21. Causal Inference
  22. Professors and stress
  23. Metrics on education
  24. Charter school tricks: an ongoing saga
  25. Educational Performance?
  26. The Ddulite Bifurcation
  27. Professors and adjuncts -- inappropriate aggregation watch at Forbes
  28. Professor is low stress?
  29. You want flying cars? I'll give you flying cars
  30. Of outhouses and automobiles
  31. "Back when 50 miles was a long way"
  32. Miles instead of years
  33. Megan McArdle's collectivist libertarianism
  34. When Patents attack

2012 441

December 2012

  1. Bad grading idea
  2. Back when fifty years was a long time ago
  3. More on Glaeser and Houston
  4. Glaeser... Glaeser... Where have I heard that name before?
  5. Disability and work
  6. Thinking about the math of board games over at You Do the Math
  7. I'll be talking about the future in the future
  8. A poverty comment
  9. The difficulties in talking about TV viewership.
  10. The difference between fantasy and reality
  11. Boxing Day Brain Teasers
  12. Charity
  13. Merry Christmas from Little Nemo
  14. As American as Wyatt Earp
  15. Traditional vs. current gun culture
  16. The end was near a long time ago
  17. Medical Education
  18. A difference in kind
  19. Weekend puzzle -- Count the Squares
  20. Why are there no "Right to Ranch" states?
  21. Right-to-free-ride state
  22. What's wrong with science fiction authors?
  23. Right to work
  24. New at You Do the Math -- The Eugen Weber Paradox
  25. "Rove's Dilemma" Graph Game
  26. ...worth a thousand words
  27. This is simply remarkable
  28. Peter Principle or Dilbert Principle*
  29. Right to work is anything but!
  30. I'm a Mac... and I'm about to be eaten by feral dingoes
  31. Hostess Pensions
  32. Krugman versus Yglesias
  33. To spell out or not to spell out
  34. First they come for the pigeons...
  35. Dogwalking
  36. Value Investing
  37. Incentives
  38. Golden Sponge Cake with Creamy Filling and Moral Hazard

November 2012

  1. Marketplace on data mining and targeted marketing
  2. Tsunamis and Scientologists
  3. Horribly pretentious person seeks out horribly pretentious people so she can be horrified at their pretentions
  4. Walmart and Unions
  5. Profile of a businessman I admire
  6. Hostess and salaries
  7. For those of you who are still working their way through the leftovers
  8. The real reason for almost all big business failures
  9. "Lance Armstrong And The Business Of Doping"
  10. To have one $8 billion dollar writedown, Ms. Whitman, may be regarded as a misfortune. To have two looks like carelessness.
  11. Introducing "You Do the Math"
  12. Blog list updated
  13. Toys for Tots -- reprinted, slightly revised
  14. Bitter Harvest
  15. Economics: a new definition?
  16. Depressing education chart of the day
  17. More on Hostess
  18. Hoisted from the comments
  19. What's with the (non)weird name?
  20. "Peggy" "Noonan's" Life on Mars
  21. Go read Noah Smith
  22. Jon Stewart opens up a big ol' can of historical context on Bill O'Reilly
  23. Follow-up to yesterday's post
  24. Free Market Wages
  25. Today's tuition discussion
  26. Social Security: really, what is going on here?
  27. The biggest political story you probably haven't heard
  28. You really should be reading Andrew Gelman's blog
  29. More for blogger's to-do list
  30. Podhoretz mans up
  31. That certainly was a close one
  32. When it comes to the horse race, what do the people say?
  33. Life on 49-49
  34. Elasticity, Plasticity and Creep in polls
  35. A very good perspective on the latest Star Wars news
  36. When a stag/hare hunt is not a stag/hare hunt
  37. Strauss and the war on data

October 2012

  1. Epidemiological Measures
  2. Flexible hours
  3. MedicAid
  4. When you start a sentence with "one good indicator of a person who’s not so smart," you should be extra careful about what you say next
  5. Today's must read
  6. Empiricism
  7. Journalistic Norms and the lack thereof
  8. Market Failures
  9. Norms
  10. But one of the editors always came a different conclusion than the rest
  11. Once again NPR leaves me pleasantly surprised
  12. Always click the XKCD link
  13. What is the correct reference group?
  14. Back to education for a moment
  15. She left out the part about encouraging you to get your family to risk their finances by co-signing your loans
  16. If the word 'slumberland' means anything to you...
  17. S'more thoughts on the marshmallow game
  18. The Marshmallow Game
  19. The Antonym Game
  20. Higher Education
  21. Nate Silver interview on Fresh Air
  22. Jon Stewart does not believe that 8 million > 4 billion
  23. Health Insurance markets are tricky
  24. Innovation
  25. More indispensable journalism from Marketplace
  26. Cutthroat capitalism and the 52/20 club
  27. Health Insurance Question
  28. Jaime Escalante and the full factorial
  29. One more argument for the list

September 2012

  1. What is the new interest in complexity?
  2. Even Jaime Escalante wasn't a Jaime Escalante
  3. Following Mark's link on education
  4. Essential Felix
  5. The main reason epidemiology is hard... urgency
  6. More on the whole "Epidemiology is Hard" thing
  7. This does not seem to be a hoax
  8. LA billboards -- another n = 1 hypothesis
  9. Back on the down ticket question
  10. Why is investment in human capital out of favor?
  11. Another recommend (this time not blind)
  12. Another reason observational epidemiology is hard
  13. Important if true
  14. Blind recommendation
  15. A culture of bad journalism
  16. Andrew Gelman forces me to read Bob Somerby
  17. Education: Chicago edition
  18. More down-ticket thoughts
  19. The difference between Mark Twain and Dean Baquet...
  20. Nate Silver's new book
  21. Mark Thoma and the hothouse flowers of the right
  22. More non-snarky questions
  23. More on Andrew Gelman's tobacco post
  24. Inequality
  25. Why Observational Epidmeiology is frustrating
  26. Felix Salmon is back: California pension edition
  27. This will sound like a snarky question, but it's not
  28. This is getting old,,
  29. What's wrong with the blogosphere?
  30. Smart meters, incentives and a chance to use "extruded" in a post
  31. is $152B < $186B
  32. Urban Libertarians
  33. Stories worth catching (Public Radio Edition)

August 2012

  1. More on the challenges of modern media
  2. Dealing with homeowners' associations has got to be hell for libertarians
  3. You need to listen to this story on the threat of a global food crisis
  4. More stories on infrastructure
  5. Seeing things differently
  6. Robert H. Frank comes out strong for the carbon tax
  7. Megafires, incentives and the inactivity bias
  8. Let's say there's no global warming...
  9. Megafires
  10. The perils of 401(k) accounts: a continuing series
  11. Government Health Care
  12. Hearst and Hitler
  13. Levitt and publishing bias in medical journals
  14. Cost is tricky in health care
  15. Ground source heat pumps
  16. Medical Costs
  17. Some thoughts on cinema overe at MippyvilleTV
  18. More Econ 101
  19. One hundred degrees by moonlight
  20. Stock Markets
  21. Not sure about the message here
  22. What's a winning strategy for a lottery (and what does winning really mean)?
  23. Is there a political historian in the house?
  24. My problems with Matt Yglesias' Slate piece
  25. Two essential posts on the Ryan pick
  26. Nate Silver answers a question I've had for a while
  27. Harm Reduction
  28. Another data point on the competence of NBC Universal*
  29. Yglesias on the Dangers of Observational Data
  30. An almost perfect example of modern political reporting (and I don't mean that in a good way)
  31. the clothesline paradox
  32. This ought to reassure all those doubters of the uncertainty effect
  33. "The employees’ incentives are aligned more with the markets than they are with Zuckerberg"
  34. If you want to know what's wrong with the movie industry
  35. When is a conclusion credible: health care edition
  36. The uncertainty paradox
  37. Feeling better about Burton Malkiel
  38. A bit more on persuadables
  39. Facebook edges closer to underwear gnome territory
  40. "I have recently seen the silliest film."

July 2012

  1. Once again, intellectual property law has made satire superfluous
  2. Journalistic outsourcing
  3. What is in a name?
  4. Red flags -- few quick thoughts on Hacker and algebra
  5. I need to read this in depth before I comment further
  6. Felix Salmon tries to keep'm honest
  7. Loan Sharks, Facebook and the Growth Fetish
  8. Remember that ongoing conversation about the decline of journalism?
  9. More on microfoundations
  10. Two anecdotes on how (and how not) to run a business
  11. Krugman on Climate Change
  12. Saturday Afternoon in LA
  13. Marissa Mayer: Outlier
  14. "The corporate equivalent of ketosis"
  15. AHRQ Questions
  16. Quote of the Day
  17. I dream of distant verdant fields
  18. Spies like us
  19. Schadenfreude alert
  20. Ezra Klein makes a point that should be obvious but apparently isn't
  21. An immunity to cognitive dissonance now seems to be the sole requirement for a journalism position
  22. Are 83% of Medical Doctors considering leaving medicine?
  23. Stock Market Bubbles and the Near Miss Effect
  24. "The mind reels with sarcastic replies"*
  25. The part where the vet sees the closet should break your heart
  26. "I give up a little bit of my world each day"
  27. The sad part is the may not be the worst education reform proposal I've seen.
  28. Quote of the day
  29. The increasingly self-serving ethics of journalism
  30. One more locavore note
  31. "Is not" journalism and our excessive tolerance of silliness
  32. "Does Medicaid Make People Healthier?"
  33. Happy 4th from 1909
  34. Full Employment
  35. Remembering Andy Griffith
  36. "America's wealth gap -- in 1776"
  37. Majorities
  38. More on Felix and Education
  39. Speaking of essential reading
  40. Of course, people hate taxes, but they love paying penalties
  41. And the bookshelf grows heavier
  42. On Andrew Sarris
  43. Felix Salmon's overview of education
  44. Fanatical Centrism watch -- inevitable Washington Post Edition

June 2012

  1. "The 15 Most Disliked Companies in America"
  2. 4 14 13 13, 4 18 25 11 20 19 20 21 24 16 14 9 15 14 10 11 3 24 12 25 15 24 5 11 24 6 10 24 20 14 5?
  3. Dude, I'll have you know that was a bitchin' surf shop...
  4. Jonathan Chait on Bush v. Gore and journalistic cowardice
  5. off-beat data for off-beat research
  6. Always click the link
  7. Yglesias on the Apple Store
  8. Great post by Kaiser Fung
  9. Burn Notice is back
  10. The magic of markets
  11. Google has an interactive Turing tribute
  12. Class stratification
  13. Improving work-life balance
  14. A good story on structural unemployment and an excuse to bring up intra/inter-group dynamics again
  15. Thought provoking idea of the day
  16. One more point about that "On the Media" story
  17. Education Reform: back from the grave?
  18. A rant about On The Media and journalistic criticism
  19. Hoisted from the WCI comments
  20. A clever puzzler from the departing Car Talk boys
  21. Another story about the business of air travel
  22. An interesting story on the economics of air travel
  23. who's in cell four? or why a trip to the airport feels like a trip to 1987
  24. A new recurring theme for OE
  25. One more issue with Principal Agents
  26. Blogger moves
  27. A quick thought on the decline of country music
  28. Utopian urbanists and the will of God
  29. An going debate between Joseph and Mark
  30. Has anyone patented rounded corners yet? If not, I see an opportunity
  31. Airline non-innovation
  32. I always wonder about the response rate on things like this
  33. An unsung hero of technological innovation
  34. Choke points
  35. Straussians and Randians
  36. The next time you hear about hedge funds' sophisticated risk management algorithms...
  37. The ever-popular broccoli-is-bad-for-you story
  38. Medicare for all?
  39. To understand obesity, genetics is essential/irrelevant
  40. Still my favorite Krugman quote
  41. Back on the agricultural beat
  42. The twice-wrong analogy
  43. Subway cars and shipping containers
  44. Hydra posts

May 2012

  1. Mixed Markets
  2. "Wesleyan University offers a three-year bachelor's degree"
  3. Dual Class shares and free markets
  4. The other (non-Shakespearean) thing I learned in my college Shakespeare class.
  5. If we're going to discuss education, we need to make sure everyone's heard this one
  6. "Of course, Shakespeare was much newer at the time"
  7. At risk of stating obvious lots of cool
  8. Putting our money in seed corn -- literally
  9. This could be an important shift
  10. "An overdose of pharmacy students"
  11. More on the reaction to gutting the census
  12. "[N]ot a scientific survey. It’s a random survey.”
  13. Adam Frank is better at science than business
  14. Closing words on Facebook (in handy audio form)
  15. If I weren't on a business and technology kick
  16. The continuing war on science part 46
  17. Yet another view on plagiarism
  18. How about a virtual social network?
  19. Money and government
  20. Reality vs. the Facebook valuation -- part 46
  21. I wonder if someone's researching this
  22. Dual currencies
  23. "Implicit Association Tests"
  24. Ddulite Alert I (II to follow shortly)
  25. A good point on J.P. Morgan
  26. For the weekend -- five words with something in common
  27. "Ar go"
  28. A response to a response -- honest libertarians
  29. A quick response to Mark
  30. Half the ranting I'd do if I were feeling better
  31. "How venture capital is broken"
  32. This is the second Justin Fox post I've looked at in the past few days
  33. Back on the subject of agricultural research
  34. DVR Alert
  35. More on mergers and the growth fetish
  36. The issue with targeted metrics
  37. "Because he could do all these things, he imagined that he did do them."
  38. A truly remarkable piece of misreading
  39. Outcome assessment
  40. A perspective on Ayn Rand
  41. Context

April 2012

  1. Sure it saved us twenty billion, but it sounds funny
  2. Organizational strategy
  3. On the tech beat
  4. Is this really the basic lesson of economics?
  5. Can you plagiarize folklore?
  6. What I'm currently blogging about in some alternate reality
  7. Like complaining about saucy language in Sodom and Gomorrah
  8. Job cuts in science
  9. Derivative originality -- the paradox of Harry Potter
  10. Quote of the week
  11. Out of town
  12. Is working through school still a viable plan?
  13. More on Markets
  14. A lemma for a lemma -- Mike, Psmith and Orwell
  15. Composition of the Economy
  16. Student Loans
  17. Looking at the same graph -- seeing an entirely different picture
  18. A par-baked* idea for a programming competition
  19. More thoughts on the growth fetish
  20. A brief argument in favor of splitting infinitives
  21. Today's required reading
  22. Joseph lurches to the right
  23. Following up the follow-up
  24. Follow-up to Mark
  25. Inventing the (original) reasonable Republican
  26. Social Darwinism
  27. According to Snopes.com, four out of five bills have traces of cocaine on them
  28. Salmon follows up on Groupon
  29. Assumptions
  30. Sharks in a kiddie pool
  31. A thought about Libertarianism
  32. Will reading OE make you rich?

March 2012

  1. "The nation's most densely populated urbanized area"
  2. California remains in rough shape
  3. The rise of DC
  4. A programming question relating to board games
  5. Exciting academic career opportunity
  6. Canada (finally) removes the penny from circulation
  7. More on seventeen thousand -- bounding the problem
  8. Free roads, health care and This American Life
  9. Roads and Free markets
  10. Seventeen thousand and change
  11. Weekend gaming -- mutant sprouts
  12. Mark and I both remarked on this post
  13. Consequences
  14. More on the growth fetish -- Facebook vs. Groupon
  15. Venture capital and the growth fetish
  16. Misleading chart of the day
  17. Freakonomics
  18. The Mike Daisey incident illustrates the best in modern journalism
  19. 21st century Journalism
  20. Census documenting Great Depression to be released
  21. You might think a personal finance story with the title “Boost your odds of winning the lottery”. couldn't be as bad as it sounds.
  22. How our inability to distinguish between independence and contrarianism encourages Steve Landsburg to be, let's just say, a less effective pundit
  23. Andrew Gelman weighs in
  24. Futurism
  25. Presented without comment
  26. Addendum
  27. Not thinking like an economist vs. not thinking, like an economist
  28. How sure are you that your models are correct?
  29. And things get worse . . .
  30. Megan McArdle is on hiatus
  31. A randomized test of welfare
  32. Airports in the sky
  33. Back on the higher ed beat
  34. A perspective on Ayn Rand
  35. The carried interest exemption
  36. Food Stamps
  37. Landsberg's latest
  38. STEM jobs
  39. A brief diversion into Media
  40. Microfoundations
  41. Has anyone heard from Dr. Glaeser recently on this topic?
  42. Added Sugars
  43. Bleeding heart Randians
  44. Income stability
  45. Jones sings Nilsson

February 2012

  1. To understand the health care debate...
  2. I think we are a long way from this scenario
  3. Travel Update
  4. MedicAid
  5. Odd Criterion
  6. Laffer Curves
  7. Unemployment is simply a bad thing
  8. So much to rant about, so little time
  9. Target's targeting
  10. Are incentives really so hard to set up?
  11. Just move?
  12. Private Prisons
  13. While on the subject of Apple's aspect dominance
  14. Redistribution
  15. Some thoughts on patents
  16. Government as a business? A continuing exploration
  17. If you read this you'd know who you are
  18. Apple's aspect dominance
  19. Tin-can telephones and Apple's Patent Paradox
  20. Ddulite Investors -- IPO editon
  21. Block that metaphor!
  22. Libertarians in space -- the sequel

January 2012

  1. The Devil's Candy -- movie bombs and college budgets
  2. Ddulite Investors
  3. Nightmare Travel week approaching
  4. California has good universities!
  5. Not sure Dean Dad caught the gist
  6. I think we need to understand college cost structures better
  7. I was surprised by the lack of comments on this
  8. Gaming
  9. I am confused about carried interest
  10. Admittedly an extreme case
  11. Student Loans and Emergencies
  12. Tax Reform
  13. Why I believe in safety nets
  14. Copyrights and patents are intrusive government regulations
  15. Works moved out of the public domain?
  16. Another post on Unions
  17. Reading assignments
  18. Worthwhile Canadian Post
  19. Frontiers in Car development
  20. Tyler Cowen on Health Care
  21. Health Care on Nights and Weekends
  22. Thinking about past and future
  23. I thought I was done with IP stories for a while
  24. Things I wish I had time to write about -- the growth fetish
  25. Things I wish I had time to write about -- the future that was
  26. Once again a knowledge of obscure pop culture saves the day
  27. According to most science fiction shows, androids of the future should have no problem with "seven minutes"
  28. Nice Observation
  29. With this special offer, you can watch the Super Bowl on your laptop absolutely for free!!
  30. What I don't like about this graph
  31. Intellectual property and business life-cycles
  32. Behavioral Economics for Firms
  33. Astronauts and aquanauts
  34. Stock Markets and Beta
  35. Doing something for non-traditional students
  36. Cash for Citations

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