Tali Sharot and Cass Sunstein on Habituation
Be careful what you get used to; or, Get used to what you care for By asking the volunteers to increase the voltage one step… Read More »Tali Sharot and Cass Sunstein on Habituation
Learning and Education
Public knowledge, private know-how?
Via Alex Tabarrok at MR … abstract public knowledge per se has very little effect on corporate patenting, publishing, or employment of scientists. Our study… Read More »Public knowledge, private know-how?
Ricardo Hausman on know-how and economic development
Economic development depends on the accumulation of know-how. The theory of economic growth has long emphasised the importance of something called technical progress, but what… Read More »Ricardo Hausman on know-how and economic development
“If it was easy for them to have made a meaningful improvement, they would have done so already.”: Megan Stevenson on social change and constraints
(Still) recommended. Perhaps there is something unique about the people studied by RCTs in the criminal legal space that could limit generalizability. For instance, the… Read More »“If it was easy for them to have made a meaningful improvement, they would have done so already.”: Megan Stevenson on social change and constraints
Cascades, tides and shifting stars in social interventions: Megan Stevenson on cause, effect and the limits of RCTs
Recommended. A wide-lens view on more than fifty years of RCTs in the criminal legal space reveals a few common themes: most interventions don’t work,… Read More »Cascades, tides and shifting stars in social interventions: Megan Stevenson on cause, effect and the limits of RCTs
Nasal turbinates
If you’ve ever wondered why a congested nose tends to feel blocked on one side (and runny on the other) only to switch sides later,… Read More »Nasal turbinates
Hadley Wickham defines Tidy Data
For non-specialists: If you’ve ever wondered why it’s so hard to get all the data points you want into a simple, workable database and what… Read More »Hadley Wickham defines Tidy Data
A deeper yielding*
“You’re really good at choosing ripe avocados. What’s the secret?” “I’ve been selling fruit for twenty years. It’s not something I can just tell you…”… Read More »A deeper yielding*
Recommendation: 3Blue1Brown explains Bayes’ Theorem via geometry
Excellent. Assumes no prior knowledge.
James Yorke: fifty years of chaos (theory)
Almost fifty years ago, when my student T. Y. Li and I wrote a math paper titled “Period 3 Implies Chaos”, I could not predict… Read More »James Yorke: fifty years of chaos (theory)