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    <dc:creator>MarcK</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Randomized controlled trials have been used in economics for 50 years, and intensively in economic development for more than 20. There has been a great deal of useful work, but RCTs have no unique advantages or disadvantages over other empirical methods in economics. They do not simplify inference, nor can an RCT establish causality. Many of the difficulties were recognized and explored in economics 30 years ago, but are sometimes forgotten. I review some of the most relevant issues here. The most troubling questions concern ethics, especially when very poor people are experimented on. Finding out what works, even if such a thing is possible, is in itself a deeply inadequate basis for policy"]]></description>
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That's a great analogy. This part is great too:

"""
Lest I be accused of some kind of neuroscientific nihilism, let me be clear: I’m not saying that there are no new facts left to learn about the dynamics of the DMN. Quite the contrary. It’s clear there’s a ton of stuff we don’t know about the various brain regions and circuits that comprise the thing we currently refer to as the DMN. It’s just that that stuff lies almost entirely at levels of analysis below the level at which the DMN emerges as a coherent system. At the level of cognitive neuroimaging, I would argue that we actually already have a pretty darn good idea about what the functional correlates of DMN regions are–and for that matter, I think we also already pretty much “understand” what all of the constituent regions within the DMN do individually. So if we want to study the DMN productively, we may need to give up on high-level questions like “what are the cognitive functions of the DMN?”, and instead satisfy ourselves with much narrower questions that focus on only a small part of the brain dynamics that, when measured and analyzed in a certain way, get labeled “default mode network”.
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And it applies to Econ (macro vs micro etc) too.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>MarcK</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Science strives for coherence. For example, the findings from climate science form a highly coherent body of knowledge that is supported by many independent lines of evidence: greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human economic activities are causing the global climate to warm and unless GHG emissions are drastically reduced in the near future, the risks from climate change will continue to grow and major adverse consequences will become unavoidable. People who oppose this scientific body of knowledge because the implications of cutting GHG emissions—such as regulation or increased taxation—threaten their worldview or livelihood cannot provide an alternative view that is coherent by the standards of conventional scientific thinking. Instead, we suggest that people who reject the fact that the Earth’s climate is changing due to greenhouse gas emissions (or any other body of well-established scientific knowledge) oppose whatever inconvenient finding they are confronting in piece-meal fashion, rather than systematically, and without considering the implications of this rejection to the rest of the relevant scientific theory and findings. Hence, claims that the globe “is cooling” can coexist with claims that the “observed warming is natural” and that “the human influence does not matter because warming is good for us.” Coherence between these mutually contradictory opinions can only be achieved at a highly abstract level, namely that “something must be wrong” with the scientific evidence in order to justify a political position against climate change mitigation. This high-level coherence accompanied by contradictory subordinate propositions is a known attribute of conspiracist ideation, and conspiracism may be implicated when people reject well-established scientific propositions."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/henry-farrell-post-democracy/">
    <title>Henry Farrell – On post-democracy</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-01T22:28:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/henry-farrell-post-democracy/</link>
    <dc:creator>MarcK</dc:creator><dc:subject>democracy henry.farrell via:cshalizi **</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/b:ac903cb22f0d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJcQYVtZMo">
    <title>Flashmob Flash Mob - Ode an die Freude ( Ode to Joy ) Beethoven Symphony No.9 classical music - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-24T16:06:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJcQYVtZMo</link>
    <dc:creator>MarcK</dc:creator><dc:subject>music via:tom_levenson Beautiful via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/b:10feaa5aace2/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:Beautiful"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Kind-Reader/Love-Like-Cosima/ba-p/8989">
    <title>Love Like Cosima - The Barnes &amp; Noble Review</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-28T20:05:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Kind-Reader/Love-Like-Cosima/ba-p/8989</link>
    <dc:creator>MarcK</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Your friend is probably not Cosima Wagner. Unless she too has tried to set up her daughter on a date with Adolf Hitler or addresses her husband as "Master." (Hey, whatever floats your boat.) But that impulse, to serve rather than to be served, to prioritize someone else's talents over your own, springs from the same dark place of doubt and fear. And it's a remarkably easy trap to fall into when the person with whom you share your bed, your life, your morning coffee, is being heralded as a genius by the outside world. It's so difficult to put up your little hand and squeak out, "Um, me too, maybe?" It's much easier to decide instead to make dinner for your household genius, so that he doesn't have to, and can spend that time making real his potential."]]></description>
<dc:subject>moral_psychology marriage wagner.cosima prompts_uncomfortable_reflections crispin.jessa via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/b:a334106cb7bb/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:marriage"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:wagner.cosima"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:prompts_uncomfortable_reflections"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:crispin.jessa"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.walterjonwilliams.net/2012/09/the-mittster/">
    <title>The Mittster</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-26T01:12:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.walterjonwilliams.net/2012/09/the-mittster/</link>
    <dc:creator>MarcK</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Now my first reaction was to think: “Wow, the government’s going to pay me if I vote for Obama?  Where do I sign!”
"And my second thought was that Romney was just pissed off because Obama had gone and bribed the poor with welfare before he, Romney, could bribe the rich with tax cuts.
"And then I thought, Well, naw, he doesn’t mean it.  He’s just pandering to his audience, the way politicians do.
"And then I thought: You know what?  That doesn’t matter.
"Romney may or may not believe the nonsense that falls out of his mouth, but the fact is he’s willing to say it, and say it right in front of a bunch of his peers."

Yes, exactly.  (All candidates tailor the message to the audience [imagine if they didn't!], but there are choices in how you do that.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics class_struggles_in_america It-would-be-funny-if-it-wasn't-true via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/b:f31f47070619/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:It-would-be-funny-if-it-wasn't-true"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:via:cshalizi"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://mathbabe.org/2012/05/20/stop-question-and-frisk-policy-getting-stopped-questioned-and-frisked/">
    <title>Stop, Question, and Frisk policy getting stopped, questioned, and frisked « mathbabe</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-21T15:59:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mathbabe.org/2012/05/20/stop-question-and-frisk-policy-getting-stopped-questioned-and-frisked/</link>
    <dc:creator>MarcK</dc:creator><dc:subject>crime creeping_authoritarianism new_york to_teach:data-mining via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/b:f689e910ded6/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:new_york"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:to_teach:data-mining"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:via:cshalizi"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2012/05/summary-of-rules-from-elements-of-programming-style-1974/">
    <title>Summary of rules from &quot;Elements of Programming Style,&quot; 1974 | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-21T15:58:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2012/05/summary-of-rules-from-elements-of-programming-style-1974/</link>
    <dc:creator>MarcK</dc:creator><dc:subject>programming to_teach:statcomp via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/b:f93027088618/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:via:cshalizi"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/">
    <title>Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is – Whatever</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-15T20:01:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/</link>
    <dc:creator>MarcK</dc:creator><dc:subject>inequality funny:geeky funny:pointed funny:sad scalzi.john via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/b:b39ba1daac10/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:funny:pointed"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:funny:sad"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:scalzi.john"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://whimsley.typepad.com/whimsley/2012/03/wikibollocks-mathew-ingram-and-seth-godin-on-publishing.html">
    <title>Wikibollocks: Mathew Ingram and Seth Godin on publishing</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-09T04:33:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://whimsley.typepad.com/whimsley/2012/03/wikibollocks-mathew-ingram-and-seth-godin-on-publishing.html</link>
    <dc:creator>MarcK</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Indeed.  I am very happy with switching to electronic books for novels & c., but it is exceedingly clear to me that _somebody_ is profiting here, even at $0.99, and it is not the authors, but rather the intermediaries who act as centralized controls over the flow, and make sure that their monopoly status is hard to challenge.
(Or: Amazon self-publishing as the Elsevier of electronic books; discuss.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>publishing networked_life intellectual_property slee.tom to:blog via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/b:6940c45a7b53/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:intellectual_property"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:slee.tom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:to:blog"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.walterjonwilliams.net/2012/02/paypal-puts-the-screws-on-erotica/">
    <title>PayPal Puts the Screws on Erotica</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-27T16:38:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.walterjonwilliams.net/2012/02/paypal-puts-the-screws-on-erotica/</link>
    <dc:creator>MarcK</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well, actually, _some_ of us were telling you to worry more about the Nanny Bank than the Nanny State, thank you very much.]]></description>
<dc:subject>pr0n freedom_of_expression paypal williams.walter_jon via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/b:5a61f7d4d18b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:freedom_of_expression"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:paypal"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:williams.walter_jon"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://afinetheorem.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/the-future-of-taypayer-funded-research-committee-for-economic-development-2012/">
    <title>“The Future of Taypayer-Funded Research,” Committee for Economic Development (2012) « A Fine Theorem</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-12T19:11:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://afinetheorem.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/the-future-of-taypayer-funded-research-committee-for-economic-development-2012/</link>
    <dc:creator>MarcK</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" if some policy increases consumption of something with zero marginal cost (an idea, an academic paper, a song, an e-book, etc.), a minimum, necessary condition to restrict that policy is that the variety of affected new goods must decrease. So if music piracy increases the number of songs consumed (and the number of songs illegally downloaded in any period of time is currently much higher than worldwide sales during that period), a minimum economic justification for a government crackdown on piracy is that the number of new songs created has decreased (in this case, they have not). Applying The First Law to open access mandates, a minimum economic justification for opposing such mandates is that either open access has no benefits, or that open access will make peer reviewed journals economically infeasible."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:blog economics why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_academic_publishing_system via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/b:ed45b2895f4e/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:to:blog"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_academic_publishing_system"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://slackwire.blogspot.com/2012/02/noah-clue.html">
    <title>The Slack Wire: Noah Clue</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-05T20:49:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://slackwire.blogspot.com/2012/02/noah-clue.html</link>
    <dc:creator>MarcK</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Stolen from CSR. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics macroeconomics financial_crisis_of_2007-- evisceration mason.j.w. smith.noah via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/b:d48034ed8a73/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:macroeconomics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:financial_crisis_of_2007--"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:evisceration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:mason.j.w."/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:smith.noah"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:via:cshalizi"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.1/claude_fischer_steven_pinker_better_angels_nature.php">
    <title>Boston Review — Claude S. Fischer: Not So Nasty, Brutish, and Short</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-09T19:58:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.1/claude_fischer_steven_pinker_better_angels_nature.php</link>
    <dc:creator>MarcK</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Very nice

"Steven Pinker has read the reports on civilian deaths in the Afghan war, mass rapes in the Congo, “going postal” shootings in the United States, and our youths’ seeming addiction to Call of Duty video games. Yet the Harvard cognitive scientist and wildly effective popularizer of evolutionary psychology brings you the Good News: humans are now far less violent than they have ever been. In roughly 700 pages of text and many dozens of graphs, Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature takes us on a long trip through millennia of brutality and sadism to arrive at a time, our time, when we ain’t going to study war—nor, for that matter, wife-beating, animal torture, or burning at the stake—no more.
Professional historians have known this news for decades; in their field, it is conventional wisdom that violence has declined over the centuries in both rate and savagery. Now Pinker brings his considerable analytical powers and rhetorical skills to tell this story to the wider public. He can be heard on NPR, seen on The Colbert Report, and read about in New York Times features. The Times’s Nicholas Kristof is ready to award The Better Angels of Our Nature a Pulitzer. Unlike the historians, many lay readers and listeners are surprised. “Really?!” Stephen Colbert asked in one of his less parodic moments. Really.
Pinker also means to deliver on the book’s subtitle, “Why Violence Has Declined.” But while his chronicle is powerfully and convincingly straightforward—rates of violence have indeed decreased—his explanations are less so. They may even undermine his campaign for a biological view of the human condition."]]></description>
<dc:subject>book_reviews sociology violence pinker.steven fischer.claude evolutionary_psychology via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:MarcK/t:pinker.steven"/>
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