Freakonometrics

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

• "The Problem With Math Is That It Makes People Seem Smart" http://www.peerreviewedbymyneurons.com/he-problem-with-math-is-that-it-makes-people-seem-smart/ … via @nb58 @J_P_Boucher
• "Parent first, lecturer second: what I've learned from being both"http://www. 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/co2012/dec/08/predatory-practices-accountancy-firms … on "the predatory practices of major accountancy firms"
• "Tax the Traders! It Would Solve Economic Crisis and Stop Reckless Trading" http://www.slate.com/spitzer/2012/12/03/tax_financial_transactions_solve_debt_crisis_and_stop_reckless_trading.html … by @eliotspitzer
• "Relationship between Sociology and Economics (and Political Science)" http://web.mit.edu/ewzisciplinary%20Cross-Citation%20Patterns.pdf … on cross-disciplinary citation patterns 
• "Climate Science Predictions Prove Too Conservative", by Glenn Scherer http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar=climate-science-predictions-prove-too-conservative …
• "Men are pervs, women are gold diggers" http://miratech.com/eye-tracking-men-are-pervs2.html … 

• "Let bad banks pay for financial literacy" http://www.marketwatch.com/dbanks-pay-for-financial-literacy-2012-12-05?link=sfmw … via @moorehn
• "Scientific consensus shifts public opinion on climate change" http://theconversation.edu.au/sciensensus-shifts-public-opinion-on-climate-change-10356 …
• "For Second Opinion, Consult a Computer?" http://www.nytimes.com/health/quest-to-eliminate-diagnostic-lapses.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 …
• "Saving Economics from the Economists" http://hbr.org/saving-economics-from-the-economists/ar/1 …
• "Does Academic Research Destroy Stock Return Predictability?" http://papers.ssrn.com/so… (talk next week at http://www.hec.ca/finance/… )
• "Outta control political incorrectness" http://andrewgelman.com/outta-control-political-incorrectness/ … (still on the “Man and the Economy” journal story) by @StatModeling
• (in the U.S.) "Top 1% are 288 times richer than you!" http://www.hlntv.com/art9/11/top-1-288-times-typical-american-household …
• "Americans’ life spans has reversed itself for white people who lack high school diplomas" http://www.nytimes.com/life-expectancy-for-less-educated-whites-in-us-is-shrinking.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1 …
• "opinions" http://dilbert.com/strips/012-10-07/ … via @BursteinVK

• "The Debtor Prisoner’s Dilemma" http://www.project-syndicate.org/comancial-sustainability--default--and-argentina-s-failed-debt-model-by-harold-james …
• "Rich People Still Don’t Realize They’re Rich" http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/ch-people-still-dont-realize-theyre-rich/ …
• "Referee Recommendations" http://papers.ssrn.com/sm?abstract_id=2137119 …"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 http://lamages.blogspot.fr/changing-colours-and-legends-in-lattice.html#more …
• "The population conundrum" by Norma Cohen http://www.ft.com/in…via @tomroud
• nice discussion on http://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?" http://www.guardian.co.uk/scien-corner/2012/nov/30/1 … "Modern science is all about evaluation these days...."
• "graduate students and networking" http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/graduate-students-and-networking/ …
• "How to make NYT-style bar charts with R"http:// blog.revolutionanalytics.com/tutorial-how-to-make-nyt-style-bar-charts-with-r.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=send+social+media&utm_campaign=twitter … via@YvesMulkers
• "Can the VIX Signal Market Direction?" http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~steele/C…
• "It's Time to Fix America's Email Exclamation Point Addiction!" http://www.theatlanticwire.com/tech2/05/its-time-fix-americas-email-exclamation-point-addiction/51933/ … via @_mmgh @Sophie_Gourion
• [free ebook] "An introduction to measure theory" by Terence Taohttp:// terrytao.files.wordpress.com/measure-book1.pdf …
• "The Rhetoric of Economics" by Donald McCloskey, 1983, http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/john.cochrane/teaching/Empirical_Asset_Pricing/mccloskey_rhetoric.pdf …
• "Why I chose journalism over science" http://www.scilogs.com/why-i-chose-journalism-over-science/ …by @AkshatRathi
• "Americans are not getting any older, literally" http://www.medicaldaily.com/10400/20120621/life-expectancy-stagnates-america.htm … "Life expectancy in the United States has stagnated..."
• "How the Recession Improved Life Expectancy - but Didn't Make Us Healthier" http://www.theatlantic.com/health//2012/11/how-the-recession-improved-life-expectancy-but-didnt-make-us-healthier/265401/ …
• "Introduction to Predictive Modeling in R" http://www.casact.org/education/webinar/2012/index.cfm?fa=RPredMod … yes, the Casualty Actuarial Society recommends R...
• Text Analytics Yields Employee Sentiment Insights for HR Executives" http://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"http:// en.wikipedia.org/Will_Rogers_phenomenon …
• "A Free-Market Fix for the Copyright Racket" http://www.bloomberg.com/news/9/a-free-market-fix-for-the-copyright-racket.html …
  
• "targeting your audience and specifically tailoring outputs to policymakers is key to improving the impact of research" http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impact…
• "Occupy gets into the debt market" http://www.salon.com/occupy_gets_into_the_debt_market/ … "buy up and forgive thousands of dollars worth of debt is (....) pretty clever"
• "Occupy Is Buying Loans and Forgiving Debt" http://politix.topix.com/3339-occupy-is-buying-loans-and-forgiving-debt … "The People's Bailout"
• "At most a third of us show a consistent approach to financial risk"http:// web.mit.edu/012/study-only-a-third-of-us-show-consistent-approach-to-financial-risk-1203.html … and the AER paperhttp:// pubs.aeaweb.org/d.1257/aer.102.6.2606 …
• "High-Speed Trades Hurt Investors, a Study Says"http://www. nytimes.com/business/high-speed-trades-hurt-investors-a-study-says.html?ref=business&pagewanted=all&_r=0 … can't find the study ? might still behttp:// papers.ssrn.com/som?abstract_id=1686004 …
• "Financial Decision Making and Cognition in a Family Context"http://www. rand.org/puapers/2010/RAND_WR785.pdf …

• "Comment fêter noël comme un économiste" http://blog.francetvinfo.fr/classe-eco/… les conseils de dernière minute de l'excellentissime @adelaigue
• "Le droit à l’oubli sur Internet : une idée dangereuse" http://www.liberation.fr/soc2/04/le-droit-a-l-oubli-sur-internet-une-idee-dangereuse_865105 … via @mapav8
• "Et si vous aviez investi vos cotisations retraite dans le CAC40 ?"http:// theoreme-du-bien-etre.net/et-si-vous-aviez-investi-vos-cotisations-retraite-dans-le-cac40/ …
• "Rendements boursiers et vieillissement de population"http:// h16free.com/19101-rendements-boursiers-et-vieillissement-de-population … via @tomroud
• "Cotisation sociale, sémantique patronale et sophisme journalistique" (en France) http://ragemag.fr/semantitronale-et-sophisme-journalistique/ …
• "Évaluer l’enseignement des enseignants-chercheurs" http://rachelgliese.wordpress.com/evaluer-lenseignement-des-enseignants-chercheurs/ …
• "le nombre de charges de cours a augmenté trois fois plus rapidement que le nombre de professeurs" à l'Université Laval http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/alites/education/201212/04/01-4600759-les-charges-de-cours-en-forte-hausse-a-luniversite-laval.php …
• Aux Etats-Unis, "la bulle de la dette étudiante est en train d'exploser" http://la-chronique-agora.com/dett…
• "Pas de sirop d'érable dans mon camembert!" http://www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/sciences-sociales-psychologie/20121203-pas-de-sirop-derable-dans-mon-camembert.html …
• "L’anatomie du blog scientifique 2. Le titre" http://metablog.hypotheses.org/223  par @abou2twitt
• "La science n'a pas de don de voyance" http://www.lemonde.fr/style/2012/11/23/la-science-n-a-pas-de-don-de-voyance_1794241_1575563.html …via @malipaquin @J_P_Boucher