Against the economists on school spending
Some days ago I posted a chart about school spending (per-pupil spending) and math test scores: Note how I didn't say this cross-sectional scatterplot proves anything about causality, but we…
The indoctrination effect of universities: overstated
Dictionaries define indoctrination as: the act of indoctrinating, or teaching or inculcating a doctrine, principle, or ideology, especially one with a specific point of view (dictionary.com) the process of repeating…
Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought by Jonathan Rauch (review)
Rauch, J. (1993). Kindly inquisitors: The new attacks on free thought. University of Chicago Press. There is a slightly updated 2014 version which I read. It's on Libgen. Many years…
Predatory journals
I had my first Twitter controversy. So: https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/515857830524768256 https://twitter.com/rogierK/status/516162369350008832 I pointed out in the reply to this, that they don't actually charge that much normally. The comparison is here. The…
Review: The Digital Scholar: How Technology is Transforming Academic Practice (Martin Weller)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12582388-the-digital-scholar http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=5343D586EEEFB7BB24DE5B71FBD07C32 Someone posted a nice collection of books dealing with the on-going revolution in science: https://twitter.com/melbaek/status/515140960548691968 So i decided to read some of them. Ironically, many of them are…
Review: Unlearning Liberty (Greg Lukianoff)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13587028-unlearning-liberty http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=21a52e674d9a13997e55b8a12581f4a4 I just have to blog about this book. Normally when i review books i have a number of quotes from it. Not this one. It is not becus…
Graphical overview of academic publication systems
To the left is the current most popular practice. It has its roots in journals that were printed on paper and is not suited to the internet. To the right…