This is a follow-up summary of my new interview with Tara McCarthy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXOeiKbhJqM The problems Science is a broad cluster of methods and practices used to discover patterns in nature…
I have been tweeting annotated snippets from a WHO report I'm reading. Like this: https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/895006070388772866 Basically, the report does a decent job at summarizing the state of the art in…
After reading a book defending limitations to free trade/protectionism, it was time for something completely different. So I looked around after any current, well-regarded (in their circles) Austrian libertarian economist.…
Recently, I decided it was time for catching up on my to-read list. I try to read >=30 books a year, and I was behind, owing to spending a lot…
Along with some other people, I was asked to produce a list of the top 5 books that had the largest influence on me. https://twitter.com/BenWinegard/status/871773406110154753 Note that this is not…
This is a break from the usual technical sciency stuff! I talked with John Fuerst about how weird it is that people all over the Western world were watching the…
A reader asked me to comment on the predictions/musings by Marty Nemko at his blog. I had never heard of him before, but he's some kind of coach, radio host…
There is a famous paper arguing the case for libertarian paternalism by using organ donation consent rates. Johnson, E. J., & Goldstein, D. (2003). Do defaults save lives?. Science, 302(5649),…
See also: Rationality and bias test results I stumbled upon another political bias test: http://econturingtest.com/ Basically, you will be given 10 questions: 5 about why US-style conservatives favor/oppose a given…
I had the impression that, since recognition of [problem] dates back at least to [person from a long time ago], there was a voluminous literature and [statistics to deal with…