Paul J. Ferraro and Laura O. Taylor ask, “Do Economists Recognize an Opportunity Cost When They See One? A Dismal Performance from the Dismal Science” One expects people with graduate training in economics to have a deeper understanding of economic processes and reasoning than people without such training. However, as others have noted over the past 25 years, modern graduate…
The Body Counter
There’s a very interesting article in Foreign Policy on a man called Patrick Ball who uses statistics as a human rights tool. Could the movements of refugees have been random? No, Ball said. He had also plotted killings of Kosovars and found that both phenomena occurred at the same times and in the same places…
Causa Efecto by Ana Soler
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London Day Trip Stop 2: Russell Square
Having visited the British Library on stop 1, I bought a sandwich for lunch and walked down to Russell Square. The clue I tweeted to my location (below) was nicely ambiguous, looking like a fairly standard London scene. David Ault, winner of the photo clue competition at stop 1, attempted a “CSI ‘Zoom… Enhance…’” on…
The months are drawing in
February was two days shorter than January. “I’m worried”, I tweeted, “If this carries on, how long will December 2012 be?” Another way of looking at this is that February is about 93.5% the length of January, so I asked which would produce a shorter December:A. losing a fixed 2 days each month; or,B. each…
London Day Trip Stop 1: British Library
In a previous blog post Things to do in London on a Tuesday I asked for suggestions of things to do on my day trip to London. I went because I was invited to attend the inaugural London walking tour from Maths in the City – we’ll get to that – and apparently the date…
PRISMATICA by Kit Webster
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