The Debtor Prisoner's Dilemma, Bar Charts with R, and More Data Links of the Week

Still interesting posts, here and there, on the internet,

• “The Problem With Math Is That It Makes People Seem Smart” peerreviewedbymyneurons.com/… via nb58 and J_P_Boucher
• “Parent first, lecturer second: what I’ve learned from being both” guardian.co.uk/… by ArmenianJames
• “Despite the evidence of fraudulent schemes, no firm has ever been disciplined by any professional accountancy body” guardian.co.uk/ … on “the predatory practices of major accountancy firms”
• “Tax the Traders! It Would Solve Economic Crisis and Stop Reckless Trading” slate.com/spitzer/…by eliotspitzer
• “Relationship between Sociology and Economics (and Political Science)” web.mit.edu/ewzisc… on cross-disciplinary citation patterns
• “Climate Science Predictions Prove Too Conservative”, by Glenn Scherer scientificamerican.com/ar…
• “Men are pervs, women are gold diggers” miratech.com/eye…

• “Let bad banks pay for financial literacy” marketwatch.com/db … via moorehn
• “Scientific consensus shifts public opinion on climate change” theconversation.edu.au/sc …
• “For Second Opinion, Consult a Computer?” nytimes.com/hea…
• “Saving Economics from the Economists” hbr.org/saving …
• “Does Academic Research Destroy Stock Return Predictability?” papers.ssrn.com/so… (talk next week at hec.ca/finance/… )
• “Outta control political incorrectness” andrewgelman.com/out … (still on the “Man and the Economy” journal story) by StatModeling
• (in the U.S.) “Top 1% are 288 times richer than you!” hlntv.com/ar…
• “Americans’ life spans has reversed itself for white people who lack high school diplomas” nytimes.com/life …
• “opinions” dilbert.com/strips/… via BursteinVK

• “The Debtor Prisoner’s Dilemma” project-syndicate.org/com …
• “Rich People Still Don’t Realize They’re Rich” economix.blogs.nytimes.com/ch…
• “Referee Recommendations” papers.ssrn.com/sm …“typical referee report consists roughly of one part signal and two parts noise”
• “Changing colours and legends in lattice plots” on Markus’s great blog lamages.blogspot.fr/chan…
• “The population conundrum” by Norma Cohen ft.com/in…via tomroud
• nice discussion on wmbriggs.com/6804  by mattstat on a paper mentioned a few weeks ago on “regression and causation”
• “Business as usual in judging the worth of a researcher?” guardian.co.uk/ … ”Modern science is all about evaluation these days….”
• “graduate students and networking” orgtheory.wordpress.com/gradu…
• “How to make NYT-style bar charts with R” blog.revolutionanalytics.com/t… via YvesMulkers
• “Can the VIX Signal Market Direction?” stat.wharton.upenn.edu/ste…
• “It’s Time to Fix America’s Email Exclamation Point Addiction!” theatlanticwire.com/tec…via mmgh Sophie_Gourion
• [free ebook] “An introduction to measure theory” by Terence Tao terrytao.files.wordpress.com/meas …
• “The Rhetoric of Economics” by Donald McCloskey, 1983, faculty.chicagobooth.edu/j…
• “Why I chose journalism over science” scilogs.com/why … by AkshatRathi
• “Americans are not getting any older, literally” medicaldaily.com/ … ”Life expectancy in the United States has stagnated…”
• “How the Recession Improved Life Expectancy – but Didn’t Make Us Healthier” theatlantic.com/healt…
• “Introduction to Predictive Modeling in R” casact.org/educ … yes, the Casualty Actuarial Society recommends R…
• Text Analytics Yields Employee Sentiment Insights for HR Executives” data-informed.com/bl… on Data_Informed‘s blog
• “When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states” en.wikipedia.org/Will_Rogers…
• “A Free-Market Fix for the Copyright Racket” bloomberg.com/n …
• “targeting your audience and specifically tailoring outputs to policymakers is key to improving the impact of research” blogs.lse.ac.uk/impact…
• “Occupy gets into the debt market” salon.com/occup … ”buy up and forgive thousands of dollars worth of debt is (….) pretty clever”
• “Occupy Is Buying Loans and Forgiving Debt” politix.topix.com/… ”The People’s Bailout”
• “At most a third of us show a consistent approach to financial risk” web.mit.edu/ … and the AER paper pubs.aeaweb.org/d…
• “High-Speed Trades Hurt Investors, a Study Says” nytimes.com/busi … can’t find the study ? might still be papers.ssrn.com/so …
• “Financial Decision Making and Cognition in a Family Context” rand.org/pu…