Why didn't they ask Gelman?

Reformers like Cerf, Klein, Weisberg, and even Secretary Duncan often use the term “value-added scores” to refer to how they would quantify ...

disparition

He tried to show what it was like to read a book and what the thinking mind looked like in the act of writing. He wrote compellingly about e...

codes of the underworld

The signaling problems faced by criminals are unusual in the following regard. On one hand they wish to signal a certain untrustworthiness,...

proportioned like an egge

In the river of Panuco there is a fish like a calfe, the Spanyards call it a Mallatin, hee hath a stone in his head, which the Indians use f...

virtuosi and musicians

Via Marginal Revolution , Glenn Gould on Sviatoslav Richter.

mind the gap

American conservatives have, I gather, been attacking the NHS. ( Guardian ) There's something they somehow miss. If you live in America ...

eliminative naturalism

K-Punk on Philip K. Dick's Time Out of Joint. Some of Dick's most powerful passages are those in which there is an ontological inte...