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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Claims made by linguist Daniel Everett, that the Pirahã language, spoken by a small group of native Amazonians, lacks features thought to be universally present in languages, captured the imaginations of scholars and prompted broader questions on the nature of language, the diversity in languages, and the universals shared by them. Everett claimed that, in Pirahã, he had found a language without numbers, colors, mythology, abstract thinking, or recursive embedding. These claims were challenged by proponents of a universal grammar and by other biological linguists concerned with identifying shared faculties that undergird human cognitive capacities and by linguistic anthropologists concerned with the products of those potentials as they are actualized in the interactivity of speaking. Situating the Pirahã in historical and sociological context, I question the novelty of a faculty of language and many of Everett's claims of Pirahã exceptionality, and I explore the renewed interest in the nature of language."]]></description>
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"Ghostly encounters, alien abduction, reincarnation, talking to the dead, UFO sightings, inexplicable coincidences, out-of-body and near-death experiences. Are these legitimate phenomena? If not, how should we go about understanding them? In this fascinating book, Chris French investigates paranormal claims to discover what lurks behind this “weird shit.” French provides authoritative, evidence-based explanations for a wide range of superficially mysterious phenomena, and then goes further to draw out lessons with wider applications to many other aspects of modern society where critical thinking is urgently needed.
"Using academic, comprehensive, logical, and, at times, mathematical approaches, The Science of Weird Shit convincingly debunks ESP, communicating with the dead, and alien abduction claims, among other phenomena. All the while, however, French maintains that our belief in such phenomena is neither ridiculous nor trivial; if anything, such claims can tell us a great deal about the human mind if we pay them the attention they are due. Filled with light-bulb moments and a healthy dose of levity, The Science of Weird Shit is a clever, memorable, and gratifying read you won't soon forget."]]></description>
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    <title>AI Can't Beat Stupid — The New Atlantis</title>
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    <link>https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/ai-cant-beat-stupid</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[

"The lesson of this black comedy is not that we should dismiss the fear of AI apocalypse, but that no one, no matter how intelligent, is free from enduring the ways that other people frustrate, confound, and disappoint us. For some, recognizing this can lead us to wisdom: recognizing our limitations, calibrating our ambitions, respecting the difficulty of knowing others and ourselves. But the tuition for these lessons may be high. Coping with our flawed humanity will always involve more pain, suffering, and trouble than we want. It is a war we can never really win, however many victories we accumulate. But perhaps it is one the machines cannot win either."

--- Aelkus on AI doom scenarios is (predictably?) very, very good.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2022-07-22T14:53:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/07/01/food-truths-mythbusting/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Of course, in our current information environment, do I really have any idea at all about how credible this debunking is, without trying to investigate these topics myself? (It fits nicely with my prejudices, but...)]]></description>
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    <title>The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism</title>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:evolutionary_biology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:creationism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:mathematics"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983519">
    <title>The Myth of Artificial Intelligence — Erik J. Larson | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2021-03-24T22:10:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983519</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Futurists insist that AI will soon eclipse the capacities of the most gifted human mind. What hope do we have against superintelligent machines? But we aren’t really on the path to developing intelligent machines. In fact, we don’t even know where that path might be.
"A tech entrepreneur and pioneering research scientist working at the forefront of natural language processing, Erik Larson takes us on a tour of the landscape of AI to show how far we are from superintelligence, and what it would take to get there. Ever since Alan Turing, AI enthusiasts have equated artificial intelligence with human intelligence. This is a profound mistake. AI works on inductive reasoning, crunching data sets to predict outcomes. But humans don’t correlate data sets: we make conjectures informed by context and experience. Human intelligence is a web of best guesses, given what we know about the world. We haven’t a clue how to program this kind of intuitive reasoning, known as abduction. Yet it is the heart of common sense. That’s why Alexa can’t understand what you are asking, and why AI can only take us so far.
"Larson argues that AI hype is both bad science and bad for science. A culture of invention thrives on exploring unknowns, not overselling existing methods. Inductive AI will continue to improve at narrow tasks, but if we want to make real progress, we will need to start by more fully appreciating the only true intelligence we know—our own."

--- I sympathize with what this is saying, but the people who provide the endorsements make me very leery.]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted artificial_intelligence debunking your_favorite_deep_neural_network_sucks re:ai_is_the_technology_of_the_future_and_always_will_be color_me_skeptical books:suggest_to_library</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:0c1167eb4f2b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:artificial_intelligence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:debunking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:your_favorite_deep_neural_network_sucks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:ai_is_the_technology_of_the_future_and_always_will_be"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:color_me_skeptical"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:books:suggest_to_library"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520379336/autopsy-of-a-crime-lab">
    <title>Autopsy of a Crime Lab by Brandon L. Garrett - Hardcover - University of California Press</title>
    <dc:date>2021-03-19T15:37:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520379336/autopsy-of-a-crime-lab</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This book exposes the dangerously imperfect forensic evidence that we rely on for criminal convictions.
""That's not my fingerprint, your honor," said the defendant, after FBI experts reported a "100-percent identification." They were wrong. It is shocking how often they are. Autopsy of a Crime Lab is the first book to catalog the sources of error and the faulty science behind a range of well-known forensic evidence, from fingerprints and firearms to forensic algorithms. In this devastating forensic takedown, noted legal expert Brandon L. Garrett poses the questions that should be asked in courtrooms every day: Where are the studies that validate the basic premises of widely accepted techniques such as fingerprinting? How can experts testify with 100 percent certainty about a fingerprint, when there is no such thing as a 100 percent match? Where is the quality control in the laboratories and at the crime scenes? Should we so readily adopt powerful new technologies like facial recognition software and rapid DNA machines? And why have judges been so reluctant to consider the weaknesses of so many long-accepted methods?
"Taking us into the lives of the wrongfully convicted or nearly convicted, into crime labs rocked by scandal, and onto the front lines of promising reform efforts driven by professionals and researchers alike, Autopsy of a Crime Lab illustrates the persistence and perniciousness of shaky science and its well-meaning practitioners."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted forensics debunking books:suggest_to_library</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:064451fc2eae/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:forensics"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real">
    <title>The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real | Office for Science and Society - McGill University</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-03T20:51:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- It's rather annoying that there was no link to the R code, but I reproduced the basics with a little bit of work (incorporated below for reference).  Setting the measurement standard deviation (s) to 1, as in my code, gives a modest but perceptible over-estimation at low percentiles and under-estimation at high percentiles; set it to 5 and marvel.



n <- 1000
s <- 1
actual.raw <- rnorm(n)
perceived.raw <- actual.raw+rnorm(n,sd=s)

buckets <- cut(actual.raw,
               breaks=quantile(actual.raw,
                               probs=c(0:4)/4))

perceived <- 100*ecdf(perceived.raw)(perceived.raw)
actual <- 100*ecdf(actual.raw)(actual.raw)


plot(x=actual, y=perceived, cex=0.1,
     xlab="Actual percentile", ylab="Perceived percentile")
points(y=aggregate(perceived~buckets,
                   FUN=mean)[,2],
       x=aggregate(actual~buckets,
                   FUN=mean)[,2],
       pch=16, col="blue")
abline(0,1, col="grey")
abline(lm(perceived~actual),col="blue")

# For contrast:
plot(x=actual.raw, y=perceived.raw, cex=0.1,
     xlab="Actual raw score", ylab="Perceived raw score")
abline(0,1, col="grey")
abline(lm(perceived.raw~actual.raw),col="blue")]]></description>
<dc:subject>debunking bad_data_analysis psychology dunning-kruger visual_display_of_quantitative_information to_teach:linear_models via:tsuomela</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:faac8efe5364/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:psychology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:dunning-kruger"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:visual_display_of_quantitative_information"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_teach:linear_models"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:tsuomela"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://arcdigital.media/how-the-social-dilemma-got-social-media-mostly-wrong-3bde48077140">
    <title>How The Social Dilemma Got Social Media Mostly Wrong | by Christopher J. Ferguson | Oct, 2020 | Arc Digital</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-02T15:53:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arcdigital.media/how-the-social-dilemma-got-social-media-mostly-wrong-3bde48077140</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>social_media us_politics us_culture_wars debunking re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator track_down_references</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:101835187e90/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_culture_wars"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:debunking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:track_down_references"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://arcdigital.media/postmodernism-unbound-dc576063e78e">
    <title>Postmodernism Unbound?. Review of Cynical Theories by Helen… | by Oliver Traldi | Aug, 2020 | Arc Digital</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-01T21:44:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arcdigital.media/postmodernism-unbound-dc576063e78e</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>book_reviews debunking us_culture_wars the_french_disease</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1b2ecf9252a6/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:debunking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_culture_wars"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_french_disease"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/man-who-died-ingesting-fish-tank-cleaner-remembered-as-intelligent-levelheaded/">
    <title>Man Who Died Ingesting Fish Tank Cleaner Remembered as Intelligent, Levelheaded</title>
    <dc:date>2020-04-24T19:39:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/man-who-died-ingesting-fish-tank-cleaner-remembered-as-intelligent-levelheaded/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>coronavirus_pandemic_of_2019-- debunking</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:25564076a99e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:debunking"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3321347">
    <title>On Whorfian Socioeconomics by Thomas B. Pepinsky :: SSRN</title>
    <dc:date>2019-09-15T14:31:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3321347</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Whorfian socioeconomics is an emerging interdisciplinary field of study that holds that linguistic structures explain differences in beliefs, values, and opinions across communities. Its core empirical strategy is to document a correlation between the presence or absence of a linguistic feature in a survey respondent’s language, and her/his responses to survey questions. This essay demonstrates — using the universe of linguistic features from the World Atlas of Language Structures and a wide array of responses from the World Values Survey — that such an approach produces highly statistically significant correlations in a majority of analyses, irrespective of the theoretical plausibility linking linguistic features to respondent beliefs. These results raise the possibility that correlations between linguistic features and survey responses are actually spurious. The essay concludes by showing how two simple and well-understood statistical fixes can more accurately reflect uncertainty in these analyses, reducing the temptation for analysts to create implausible Whorfian theories to explain spurious linguistic correlations."]]></description>
<dc:subject>linguistics economics social_science_methodology pepinsky.thomas_b. debunking evisceration have_read to_teach:linear_models have_sent_gushing_fanmail to:blog in_NB to_teach:data_over_space_and_time</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:7efde604a6b3/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:social_science_methodology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:pepinsky.thomas_b."/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:debunking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:evisceration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_read"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_teach:linear_models"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_sent_gushing_fanmail"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to:blog"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:in_NB"/>
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</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://truthonthemarket.com/2019/08/27/7-things-netflixs-the-great-hack-gets-wrong-about-the-facebook-cambridge-analytica-data-scandal/">
    <title>7 Things Netflix’s ‘The Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal - Truth on the Market Truth on the Market</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-30T03:26:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://truthonthemarket.com/2019/08/27/7-things-netflixs-the-great-hack-gets-wrong-about-the-facebook-cambridge-analytica-data-scandal/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[(Tangentially: if the effects of campaign advertising are 0 on average, why do campaigns spend so much on it?  Alternately, how do those studies rule out the possibility that advertising with little or no opposition would be very effective, but it's always opposed?)]]></description>
<dc:subject>to_teach:data-mining cambridge_analytica debunking track_down_references</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4d6edc335c08/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_teach:data-mining"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:cambridge_analytica"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:debunking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:track_down_references"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000401">
    <title>Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-09T15:41:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000401</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) is one of psychology’s most famous studies. It has been criticized on many grounds, and yet a majority of textbook authors have ignored these criticisms in their discussions of the SPE, thereby misleading both students and the general public about the study’s questionable scientific validity. Data collected from a thorough investigation of the SPE archives and interviews with 15 of the participants in the experiment further question the study’s scientific merit. These data are not only supportive of previous criticisms of the SPE, such as the presence of demand characteristics, but provide new criticisms of the SPE based on heretofore unknown information. These new criticisms include the biased and incomplete collection of data, the extent to which the SPE drew on a prison experiment devised and conducted by students in one of Zimbardo’s classes 3 months earlier, the fact that the guards received precise instructions regarding the treatment of the prisoners, the fact that the guards were not told they were subjects, and the fact that participants were almost never completely immersed by the situation. Possible explanations of the inaccurate textbook portrayal and general misperception of the SPE’s scientific validity over the past 5 decades, in spite of its flaws and shortcomings, are discussed."

--- Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/mjhnp/]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB psychology experimental_psychology debunking</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a089028f650e/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to:NB"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:experimental_psychology"/>
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</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.geneticshumanagency.org/gha/jayman-on-the-three-laws-of-behavior-genetics/">
    <title>Turkheimer's Projects: Genetics and Human Agency | Jayman on the Three Laws of Behavior Genetics</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-30T15:24:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.geneticshumanagency.org/gha/jayman-on-the-three-laws-of-behavior-genetics/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As usual, Turkheimer talks good sense about behavioral genetics, and what "heritability" actually means.]]></description>
<dc:subject>human_genetics heritability debunking turkheimer.eric</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:48f40ebfadbb/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:heritability"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:debunking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:turkheimer.eric"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/@mijordan3/artificial-intelligence-the-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet-5e1d5812e1e7">
    <title>Artificial Intelligence — The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet</title>
    <dc:date>2018-04-24T20:14:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/@mijordan3/artificial-intelligence-the-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet-5e1d5812e1e7</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Unsurprisingly, Michael Jordan talks sense.

(Trivial and unrelated rant: What on Earth is the point of using Medium?  It takes a post which is about 24k of text and actual formatting, and bloats it to over 150k, to do, so far as I can see, absolutely nothing of value to readers.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>artificial_intelligence debunking machine_learning jordan.michael_i.</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1e72ef6b7bd5/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.powells.com/book/-9781250107817">
    <title>Factfulness: Ten Reasons Were Wrong About the World &amp; Why Things Are Better Than You Think: Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund, Ola Rosling: Hardcover: 9781250107817: Powell's Books</title>
    <dc:date>2018-04-13T14:36:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/book/-9781250107817</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I would be _very_ leery of this book if it wasn't for Rosling's prior reputation.]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted debunking rosling.hans statistics natural_history_of_truthiness</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8dadc278cb1d/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustless-crypto-paradise-is-actually-a-medieval-hellhole-c1ca122efdec">
    <title>Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future</title>
    <dc:date>2018-04-07T16:50:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustless-crypto-paradise-is-actually-a-medieval-hellhole-c1ca122efdec</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is, of course, totally and completely correct, especially the bits about data entry.]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read debunking via:? blockchain networked_life trust institutions re:no_one_makes_you_push_to_github we_were_promised_distributed_intelligence_and_we_got_idling_cars_to_trade_sudoku_for_heroin</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c61e8c28389f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-a-use-case-for-blockchain-ee98c180100">
    <title>Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-30T17:27:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-a-use-case-for-blockchain-ee98c180100</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Everyone says the blockchain, the technology underpinning cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, is going to change EVERYTHING. And yet, after years of tireless effort and billions of dollars invested, nobody has actually come up with a use for the blockchain—besides currency speculation and illegal transactions.
"Each purported use case — from payments to legal documents, from escrow to voting systems—amounts to a set of contortions to add a distributed, encrypted, anonymous ledger where none was needed. What if there isn’t actually any use for a distributed ledger at all? What if, ten years after it was invented, the reason nobody has adopted a distributed ledger at scale is because nobody wants it?"]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read debunking blockchain bitcoin distributed_systems institutions re:no_one_makes_you_push_to_github we_were_promised_distributed_intelligence_and_we_got_idling_cars_to_trade_sudoku_for_heroin</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/1/9/14207302/authoritarian-states-boring-tolerable-fascism-trump">
    <title>Life in authoritarian states is mostly boring and tolerable - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-30T17:00:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/1/9/14207302/authoritarian-states-boring-tolerable-fascism-trump</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>political_science democracy authoritarianism historical_myths debunking have_read</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11132.html">
    <title>Quinn, J.: In Search of the Phoenicians (Hardcover and eBook) | Princeton University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-06T00:35:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11132.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long remained a mystery. In Search of the Phoenicians makes the startling claim that the “Phoenicians” never actually existed. Taking readers from the ancient world to today, this monumental book argues that the notion of these sailors as a coherent people with a shared identity, history, and culture is a product of modern nationalist ideologies—and a notion very much at odds with the ancient sources.
"Josephine Quinn shows how the belief in this historical mirage has blinded us to the compelling identities and communities these people really constructed for themselves in the ancient Mediterranean, based not on ethnicity or nationhood but on cities, family, colonial ties, and religious practices. She traces how the idea of “being Phoenician” first emerged in support of the imperial ambitions of Carthage and then Rome, and only crystallized as a component of modern national identities in contexts as far-flung as Ireland and Lebanon.
"In Search of the Phoenicians delves into the ancient literary, epigraphic, numismatic, and artistic evidence for the construction of identities by and for the Phoenicians, ranging from the Levant to the Atlantic, and from the Bronze Age to late antiquity and beyond. A momentous scholarly achievement, this book also explores the prose, poetry, plays, painting, and polemic that have enshrined these fabled seafarers in nationalist histories from sixteenth-century England to twenty-first century Tunisia."]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted ancient_history phoenicians debunking nationalism uses_of_the_past coveted in_NB in_wishlist downloaded</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/im-a-fan-of-michael-pollan-but-on-one-food-policy-argument-hes-wrong/2017/12/04/c71881ca-d6cd-11e7-b62d-d9345ced896d_story.html">
    <title>Junk food is cheap and healthful food is expensive, but don’t blame the farm bill - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-11T17:55:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/im-a-fan-of-michael-pollan-but-on-one-food-policy-argument-hes-wrong/2017/12/04/c71881ca-d6cd-11e7-b62d-d9345ced896d_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Should ask A.E. what she thinks of this, but at first glance it's pretty convincing.]]></description>
<dc:subject>food economics debunking agriculture</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:264c10afb76e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/@francois.chollet/the-impossibility-of-intelligence-explosion-5be4a9eda6ec">
    <title>The impossibility of intelligence explosion – François Chollet – Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-04T16:45:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/@francois.chollet/the-impossibility-of-intelligence-explosion-5be4a9eda6ec</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sensible, but disappointing that it has to be said.
(Even shorter: I. J. Good apparently forgot that a monotonically increasing sequence can have a finite limit!)]]></description>
<dc:subject>artificial_intelligence debunking rapture_for_nerds</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:cd55bcb8a746/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3078632?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents">
    <title>Sovereignty, International Relations, and the Westphalian Myth on JSTOR</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-29T13:17:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jstor.org/stable/3078632?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The 350th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia in 1998 was largely ignored by the discipline of international relations (IR), despite the fact that it regards that event as the beginning of the international system with which it has traditionally dealt. By contrast, there has recently been much debate about whether the "Westphalian system" is about to end. This debate necessitates, or at least implies, historical comparisons. I contend that IR, unwittingly, in fact judges current trends against the backdrop of a past that is largely imaginary, a product of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century fixation on the concept of sovereignty. I discuss how what I call the ideology of sovereignty has hampered the development of IR theory. I suggest that the historical phenomena I analyze in this article-the Thirty Years' War and the 1648 peace treaties as well as the post-1648 Holy Roman Empire and the European system in which it was embedded-may help us to gain a better understanding of contemporary international politics."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB early_modern_european_history international_relations debunking</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8506945c5154/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm">
    <title>Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-23T01:15:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[SYNCHRONIZED, SUSPICIOUSLY MECHANICAL APPLAUSE]]></description>
<dc:subject>artificial_intelligence debunking philosophy_of_mind ceglowski.maciej the_wired_ideology</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:10e2494ec49e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:philosophy_of_mind"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:ceglowski.maciej"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/myth-moral-brain?mc_cid=5352df6b9d&amp;mc_eid=f4e21334f1">
    <title>The Myth of the Moral Brain | The MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-20T18:47:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/myth-moral-brain?mc_cid=5352df6b9d&amp;mc_eid=f4e21334f1</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Throughout history, humanity has been seen as being in need of improvement, most pressingly in need of moral improvement. Today, in what has been called the beginnings of “the golden age of neuroscience,” laboratory findings claim to offer insights into how the brain “does” morality, even suggesting that it is possible to make people more moral by manipulating their biology. Can “moral bioenhancement”—using technological or pharmaceutical means to boost the morally desirable and remove the morally problematic—bring about a morally improved humanity? In The Myth of the Moral Brain, Harris Wiseman argues that moral functioning is immeasurably complex, mediated by biology but not determined by it. Morality cannot be engineered; there is no such thing as a “moral brain.”
"Wiseman takes a distinctively interdisciplinary approach, drawing on insights from philosophy, biology, theology, and clinical psychology. He considers philosophical rationales for moral enhancement, and the practical realities they come up against; recent empirical work, including studies of the cognitive and behavioral effects of oxytocin, serotonin, and dopamine; and traditional moral education, in particular the influence of religious thought, belief, and practice. Arguing that morality involves many interacting elements, Wiseman proposes an integrated bio-psycho-social approach to the consideration of moral enhancement. Such an approach would show that, by virtue of their sheer numbers, social and environmental factors are more important in shaping moral functioning than the neurobiological factors with which they are interwoven."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted moral_psychology moral_philosophy neuroscience psychology debunking</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://journal.sjdm.org/16/16823/jdm16823.html">
    <title>The irrational hungry judge effect revisited: Simulations reveal that the magnitude of the effect is overestimated</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-01T02:02:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://journal.sjdm.org/16/16823/jdm16823.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Danziger, Levav and Avnaim-Pesso (2011) analyzed legal rulings of Israeli parole boards concerning the effect of serial order in which cases are presented within ruling sessions. They found that the probability of a favorable decision drops from about 65% to almost 0% from the first ruling to the last ruling within each session and that the rate of favorable rulings returns to 65% in a session following a food break. The authors argue that these findings provide support for extraneous factors influencing judicial decisions and cautiously speculate that the effect might be driven by mental depletion. A simulation shows that the observed influence of order can be alternatively explained by a statistical artifact resulting from favorable rulings taking longer than unfavorable ones. An effect of similar magnitude would be produced by a (hypothetical) rational judge who plans ahead minimally and ends a session instead of starting cases that he or she assumes will take longer directly before the break. One methodological detail further increased the magnitude of the artifact and generates it even without assuming any foresight concerning the upcoming case. Implications for this article are discussed and the increased application of simulations to identify nonobvious rational explanations is recommended."

--- The proposed mechanism should be easy enough to check, no?]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB to_read debunking decision-making psychology</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520285996">
    <title>Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You - Agustin Fuentes - Paperback - University of California Press</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-20T15:03:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520285996</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; and men and women are truly different in behavior, desires, and wiring. In an engaging and wide-ranging narrative, Agustín Fuentes counters these pervasive and pernicious myths about human behavior. Tackling misconceptions about what race, aggression, and sex really mean for humans, Fuentes incorporates an accessible understanding of culture, genetics, and evolution, requiring us to dispose of notions of “nature or nurture.” Presenting scientific evidence from diverse fields—including anthropology, biology, and psychology—Fuentes devises a myth-busting toolkit to dismantle persistent fallacies about the validity of biological races, the innateness of aggression and violence, and the nature of monogamy and differences between the sexes. A final chapter plus an appendix provide a set of take-home points on how readers can myth-bust on their own. Accessible, compelling, and original, this book is a rich and nuanced account of how nature, culture, experience, and choice interact to influence human behavior."

--- What makes this more interesting to me is that Fuentes is a _biological_ anthropologist, i.e., a member of a tribe with an enduring and vicious feud with cultural anthropologists.]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted anthropology human_evolution race racism evolutionary_psychology debunking practices_relating_to_the_transmission_of_genetic_information in_library</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.demos.org/publication/pulling-higher-ed-ladder-myth-and-reality-crisis-college-affordability">
    <title>Pulling Up the Higher-Ed Ladder: Myth and Reality in the Crisis of College Affordability | Demos</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-15T11:58:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.demos.org/publication/pulling-higher-ed-ladder-myth-and-reality-crisis-college-affordability</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>education academia debunking class_struggles_in_america our_decrepit_institutions have_read via:unfogged to:blog</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674417311">
    <title>The Myth of Race — Robert Wald Sussman | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2015-03-11T22:10:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674417311</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Biological races do not exist—and never have. This view is shared by all scientists who study variation in human populations. Yet racial prejudice and intolerance based on the myth of race remain deeply ingrained in Western society. In his powerful examination of a persistent, false, and poisonous idea, Robert Sussman explores how race emerged as a social construct from early biblical justifications to the pseudoscientific studies of today.
"The Myth of Race traces the origins of modern racist ideology to the Spanish Inquisition, revealing how sixteenth-century theories of racial degeneration became a crucial justification for Western imperialism and slavery. In the nineteenth century, these theories fused with Darwinism to produce the highly influential and pernicious eugenics movement. Believing that traits from cranial shape to raw intelligence were immutable, eugenicists developed hierarchies that classified certain races, especially fair-skinned “Aryans,” as superior to others. These ideologues proposed programs of intelligence testing, selective breeding, and human sterilization—policies that fed straight into Nazi genocide. Sussman examines how opponents of eugenics, guided by the German-American anthropologist Franz Boas’s new, scientifically supported concept of culture, exposed fallacies in racist thinking.
"Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals today claim a new scientific basis for old racist assumptions. Pondering the continuing influence of racist research and thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, Sussman explains why—when it comes to race—too many people still mistake bigotry for science.
"Robert Wald Sussman is Professor of Physical Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis."]]></description>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:in_NB"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/why-america-not-new-rome">
    <title>Why America Is Not a New Rome | The MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-07T05:47:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/why-america-not-new-rome</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["America’s post–Cold War strategic dominance and its pre-recession affluence inspired pundits to make celebratory comparisons to ancient Rome at its most powerful. Now, with America no longer perceived as invulnerable, engaged in protracted fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and suffering the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, comparisons are to the bloated, decadent, ineffectual later Empire. In Why America Is Not a New Rome, Vaclav Smil looks at these comparisons in detail, going deeper than the facile analogy-making of talk shows and glossy magazine articles. He finds profound differences.
"Smil, a scientist and a lifelong student of Roman history, focuses on several fundamental concerns: the very meaning of empire; the actual extent and nature of Roman and American power; the role of knowledge and innovation; and demographic and economic basics--population dynamics, illness, death, wealth, and misery. America is not a latter-day Rome, Smil finds, and we need to understand this in order to look ahead without the burden of counterproductive analogies. Superficial similarities do not imply long-term political, demographic, or economic outcomes identical to Rome’s."

--- I'd be extra interested if he goes into why people are drawn to this bad analogy.]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted something_about_america uses_of_the_past roman_empire smil.vaclav debunking in_library</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c6b1b930ab82/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://growthecon.wordpress.com/2014/11/23/the-skeptics-guide-to-institutions-part-3/">
    <title>The Skeptics Guide to Institutions – Part 3 | The Growth Economics Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-24T21:30:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://growthecon.wordpress.com/2014/11/23/the-skeptics-guide-to-institutions-part-3/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>economics development_economics institutions debunking equilibrium_traps social_measurement to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e4c336af3364/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/10/a-call-for-help">
    <title>A Call for Help - The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-24T15:36:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/10/a-call-for-help</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>crime historical_myths debunking moral_psychology journalism natural_history_of_truthiness why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:9d247b814907/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://io9.com/reality-check-most-scientists-never-believed-in-globa-1617925806">
    <title>Reality Check: Most Scientists Never Believed In &quot;Global Cooling&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-10T16:40:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://io9.com/reality-check-most-scientists-never-believed-in-globa-1617925806</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>debunking historical_myths climate_change running_dogs_of_reaction history_of_science</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e9234d3916be/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/07/facebook_okcupid_user_experiments_ethics_aside_they_show_us_the_limitations.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top">
    <title>Facebook, OkCupid user experiments: Ethics aside, they show us the limitations of big data.</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-01T03:14:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/07/facebook_okcupid_user_experiments_ethics_aside_they_show_us_the_limitations.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>data_mining data_analysis computational_statistics debunking auerbach.david to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:257f8780b3bd/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://notfrisco2.com/leones/?p=7808">
    <title>Noli Irritare Leones » The Kindness of Strangers</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-09T03:02:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://notfrisco2.com/leones/?p=7808</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>book_reviews racism racist_idiocy debunking wade.nicholas bad_science_journalism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:481a63c4e68b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:wade.nicholas"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.vox.com/2014/4/21/5633442/no-inequality-doesnt-help-the-economy-grow">
    <title>No, inequality doesn't help the economy grow - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-21T21:45:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vox.com/2014/4/21/5633442/no-inequality-doesnt-help-the-economy-grow</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[And then every once in a while Yglesias writes something so obviously correct and necessary that he reminds us why he was worth reading in the first place.]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics inequality political_economy class_struggles_in_america economic_growth debunking ideology yglesias.matthew</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c5037fe50995/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:political_economy"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:economic_growth"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://baselinescenario.com/2014/03/26/a-book-that-needed-to-be-written/">
    <title>A Book That Needed To Be Written | The Baseline Scenario</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-08T16:53:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://baselinescenario.com/2014/03/26/a-book-that-needed-to-be-written/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[How does it compare to _No One Makes You Shop At Walmart_?]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics debunking via:jbdelong</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3cc387a02071/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:debunking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:jbdelong"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://abstractfactory.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-much-education-do-computing.html">
    <title>The Abstract Factory: How much education do computing innovators usually have?</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-22T18:11:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://abstractfactory.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-much-education-do-computing.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>historical_myths computers debunking class_struggles_in_america education</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c09dfd379507/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://mathbabe.org/2013/05/02/the-rise-of-big-data-big-brother/">
    <title>The rise of big data, big brother | mathbabe</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-11T01:19:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mathbabe.org/2013/05/02/the-rise-of-big-data-big-brother/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>data_mining debunking privacy ideology to_teach:data-mining</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:54a28b2c037e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_teach:data-mining"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.statschat.org.nz/2013/06/09/what-the-nsa-cant-do-by-data-mining/">
    <title>What the NSA can’t do by data mining | Stats Chat</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-10T18:50:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.statschat.org.nz/2013/06/09/what-the-nsa-cant-do-by-data-mining/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In which T. Lumley takes his turn banging his head against the wall.]]></description>
<dc:subject>national_surveillance_state data_mining debunking lumley.thomas</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:0d81fe801ae2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324">
    <title>Why two spaces after a period isn’t wrong (or, the lies typographers tell about history) - Heraclitean River</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-24T14:07:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The quotes from the earlier editions of the Chicago Manual are particularly nice.]]></description>
<dc:subject>typography debunking evisceration historical_myths via:arthegall have_read to:blog</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8366524130a9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.waggish.org/2013/is-social-science-a-joke/">
    <title>Is Social Science a Joke? - Waggish</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-14T20:17:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.waggish.org/2013/is-social-science-a-joke/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>social_science_methodology philosophy_of_science humanities debunking track_down_references</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/05/09/think_again_big_data?page=0,0">
    <title>Think Again: Big Data - By Kate Crawford | Foreign Policy</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-12T15:55:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/05/09/think_again_big_data?page=0,0</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Obvious, but apparently needs saying.]]></description>
<dc:subject>data_mining public_policy debunking via:whimsley</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:40406be62a38/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780393081374-0">
    <title>Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live by Marlene Zuk - Powell's Books</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-13T21:22:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780393081374-0</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We evolved to eat berries rather than bagels, to live in caves rather than cities, to run barefoot rather than play rugby—or did we? As Marlene Zuk reveals, theories about how our ancestors lived—and why we should emulate them—are often based on pseudoscience and speculation rather than actual research. Taking us to the cutting edge of biology, Zuk explains that evolution can work much faster than was previously realized, meaning that we are not biologically the same as our caveman ancestors. She shows how our fetishized visions of an ideal evolutionary past in which we ate, lived, and reproduced as we were “meant to” can lead us astray and distract us from more interesting considerations of how we differ from our ancestors. Along the way, she debunks the caveman diet, discusses whether we’re really designed to run barefoot, and considers modern-day courtship and child-rearing practices in the context of how our ancestors lived."]]></description>
<dc:subject>human_evolution debunking popular_social_science books:noted in_NB books:owned</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:84dfd601e673/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>What Neuroscience Really Teaches Us, and What It Doesn't : The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-06T22:09:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/12/what-neuroscience-really-teaches-us-and-what-it-doesnt.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The real problem with neuroscience today isn’t with the science—though plenty of methodological challenges still remain—it’s with the expectations. The brain is an incredibly complex ensemble, with billions of neurons coming into—and out of—play at any given moment. There will eventually be neuroscientific explanations for much of what we do; but those explanations will turn out to be incredibly complicated. For now, our ability to understand how all those parts relate is quite limited, sort of like trying to understand the political dynamics of Ohio from an airplane window above Cleveland."

- Error watch: not only did nobody know what DNA was for in 1859, nobody knew it existed.]]></description>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:33c144ea9087/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520269712">
    <title>Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You - Agustín Fuentes - University of California Press</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-12T15:18:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520269712</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; men and women are truly different in behavior, desires, and wiring. In an engaging and wide-ranging narrative Agustín Fuentes counters these pervasive and pernicious myths about human behavior. Tackling misconceptions about what race, aggression, and sex really mean for humans, Fuentes incorporates an accessible understanding of culture, genetics, and evolution requiring us to dispose of notions of “nature or nurture.” Presenting scientific evidence from diverse fields, including anthropology, biology, and psychology, Fuentes devises a myth-busting toolkit to dismantle persistent fallacies about the validity of biological races, the innateness of aggression and violence, and the nature of monogamy and differences between the sexes. A final chapter plus an appendix provide a set of take-home points on how readers can myth-bust on their own. Accessible, compelling, and original, this book is a rich and nuanced account of how nature, culture, experience, and choice interact to influence human behavior."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted human_genetics evolutionary_psychology race debunking popular_social_science</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=31390">
    <title>Brain Storm - Rebecca M. Jordan-Young | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-07T21:18:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=31390</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Female and male brains are different, thanks to hormones coursing through the brain before birth. That’s taught as fact in psychology textbooks, academic journals, and bestselling books. And these hardwired differences explain everything from sexual orientation to gender identity, to why there aren’t more women physicists or more stay-at-home dads.

In this compelling book, Rebecca Jordan-Young takes on the evidence that sex differences are hardwired into the brain. Analyzing virtually all published research that supports the claims of “human brain organization theory,” Jordan-Young reveals how often these studies fail the standards of science. Even if careful researchers point out the limits of their own studies, other researchers and journalists can easily ignore them because brain organization theory just sounds so right. But if a series of methodological weaknesses, questionable assumptions, inconsistent definitions, and enormous gaps between ambiguous findings and grand conclusions have accumulated through the years, then science isn’t scientific at all.

Elegantly written, this book argues passionately that the analysis of gender differences deserves far more rigorous, biologically sophisticated science. “The evidence for hormonal sex differentiation of the human brain better resembles a hodge-podge pile than a solid structure…Once we have cleared the rubble, we can begin to build newer, more scientific stories about human development.” "]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781442206090-0">
    <title>2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse by Matthew Restall - Powell's Books</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-22T19:09:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781442206090-0</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Did the Maya really predict that the world would end in December of 2012? If not, how and why has 2012 millenarianism gained such popular appeal? In this deeply knowledgeable book, two leading historians of the Maya answer these questions in a succinct, readable, and accessible style. Matthew Restall and Amara Solari introduce, explain, and ultimately demystify the 2012 phenomenon. They begin by briefly examining the evidence for the prediction of the world's end in ancient Maya texts and images, analyzing precisely what Maya priests did and did not prophesize. The authors then convincingly show how 2012 millenarianism has roots far in time and place from Maya cultural traditions, but in those of medieval and Early Modern Western Europe. Revelatory and myth-busting, while remaining firmly grounded in historical fact, this fascinating book will be essential reading as the countdown to December 21, 2012, begins." --- They're speaking here on Nov. 28th, but I suspect I won't be able to make it.]]></description>
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    <title>Is It a Crime to Belong to a Reference Class?</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-29T21:08:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://homepage.mac.com/mcolyvan/papers/shonubi.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>have_read law statistics debunking via:martens blogged</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Great Pheromone Myth - The Johns Hopkins University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-14T20:42:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/ecom/MasterServlet/GetItemDetailsHandler?iN=9780801893476&amp;qty=1&amp;viewMode=3</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For more than 50 years, researchers—including many prominent scientists—have identified pheromones as the triggers for a wide range of mammalian behaviors and endocrine responses. In this provocative book, renowned olfaction expert Richard L. Doty rejects this idea and states bluntly that, in contrast to insects, mammals do not have pheromones.
Doty systematically debunks the claims and conclusions of studies that purport to reveal the existence of mammalian pheromones. He demonstrates that there is no generally accepted scientific definition of what constitutes a mammalian pheromone and that attempts to divide stimuli and complex behaviors into pheromonal and nonpheromonal categories have primarily failed. Doty's controversial assertion belies a continued fascination with the pheromone concept, numerous claims of its chemical isolation, and what he sees as the wasted expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars by industry and government. "
]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted endocrinology pheromones debunking neuroscience biology</dc:subject>
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    <title>An Uncertain World III: Everything is Obvious, by Duncan J. Watts</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-08T20:49:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://whimsley.typepad.com/whimsley/2011/07/an-uncertain-world-iii-everything-is-obvious-by-duncan-j-watts.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>book_reviews watts.duncan popular_social_science debunking explanation slee.tom kith_and_kin</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3080">
    <title>Language Log » Lyrical Narcissism?</title>
    <dc:date>2011-04-09T15:18:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3080</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I'm tempted to make this into a problem set, but it's probably not challenging enough.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bad_data_analysis music poetry cultural_criticism liberman.mark debunking to_teach:undergrad-ADA my_initial_skeptical_coloration_became_on_examination_a_permanent_stain</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Thinking-in-an-Emergency/">
    <title>Thinking in an Emergency | Elaine Scarry | W. W. Norton &amp; Company</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-26T16:40:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Thinking-in-an-Emergency/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Presumably elaborates on her piece in Boston Review in 2002 (http://bostonreview.net/BR27.5/scarry.html)
]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted political_philosophy political_judgment the_continuing_crises democracy creeping_authoritarianism debunking</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520248595">
    <title>Gentlemen and Amazons : The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861--1900 - Cynthia Eller - University of California Press</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-08T14:14:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520248595</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Gentlemen and Amazons traces the nineteenth-century genesis and development of an important contemporary myth about human origins: that of an original prehistoric matriarchy. Cynthia Eller explores the intellectual history of the myth, which arose from male scholars who mostly wanted to vindicate the patriarchal family model as a higher stage of human development. Eller tells the stories these men told, analyzes the gendered assumptions they made, and provides the necessary context for understanding how feminists of the 1970s and 1980s embraced as historical “fact” a discredited nineteenth-century idea."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>historical_myths history_of_ideas feminism matriarchy debunking books:recommended have_read downloaded</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://ipmall.info/hosted_resources/PatentHistory/posass.htm">
    <title>A Patently False Patent Myth</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-04T16:57:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ipmall.info/hosted_resources/PatentHistory/posass.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>historical_myths debunking innovation via:aaronsw social_misconstruction_of_reality</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b044baf55bd6/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=31146">
    <title>Kids Don't Want to Fail: Oppositional Culture and the Black-White Achievement Gap - Angel L. Harris - Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-05T19:45:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=31146</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To put it the blurb "shorter" form: "Oppositional culture?  _What_ oppositional culture?"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted the_american_dilemma education debunking</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ca69190d6471/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences - Rebecca M. Jordan-Young - Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-05T18:52:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=30068</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted neuroscience endocrinology sex_differences debunking coveted in_wishlist</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4a4af8aa16c8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://mindhacks.com/2010/12/19/the-plant-of-human-puppets/">
    <title>The plant of human puppets « Mind Hacks</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-20T22:45:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mindhacks.com/2010/12/19/the-plant-of-human-puppets/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I love how he immediately thinks "if this worked, it could be a model experimental system for studying the neuroscience of free will"!
]]></description>
<dc:subject>drugs debunking psychology pharmacology mind-control bell.vaughn</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://bayes.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/it-takes-three-to-read-this-stupid-article-marge-two-to-write-it-and-one-to-read-it/">
    <title>“It takes three to read this stupid article, Marge. Two to write it, and one to read it.” « Quantum of Wantum</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-14T22:34:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bayes.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/it-takes-three-to-read-this-stupid-article-marge-two-to-write-it-and-one-to-read-it/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>genetics genomics debunking debunking_of_the_debunking i_stand_corrected</dc:subject>
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    <title>An Anthropic Myth: Fred Hoyle's Carbon 12 Resonance Level - Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Volume 64, Number 6</title>
    <dc:date>2010-10-25T22:24:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.springerlink.com/content/e3314q8173452345/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The case of Fred Hoyle’s prediction of a resonance state in carbon-12, unknown in 1953 when it was predicted, is often mentioned as an example of anthropic prediction. However, an investigation of the historical circumstances of the prediction and its subsequent experimental confirmation shows that Hoyle and his contemporaries did not associate the level in the carbon nucleus with life. Only in the 1980s, after the emergence of the anthropic principle, did it become common to see Hoyle’s prediction as anthropically significant. At about the same time mythical accounts of the prediction and its history began to abound. Not only has the anthropic myth no basis in historical fact, it is also doubtful if the excited levels in carbon-12 and other atomic nuclei can be used as an argument for the predictive power of the anthropic principle."
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<dc:subject>history_of_science history_of_physics astrophysics anthropic_arguments historical_myths debunking have_read to:blog hoyle.fred kragh.helge</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Concepts of &quot;Efficiency&quot; and &quot;Economic Welfare&quot; in the Context of Health Care</title>
    <dc:date>2010-09-17T14:29:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.princeton.edu/~reinhard/pdfs/INFANT_CARE-ASSIGNMENT_ON_HEALTH_ECONOMICS_FALL_2006.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Now that is what I call a _compelling_ homework assignment.  (So much so, in fact, that I am not altogether comfortable with the idea of giving it.  But at the same time so much of the rest of what they'd be getting in their economics classes is _also_ priming/framing/forcing, in a rather more underhanded way, that this might only be fair.)
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<dc:subject>economics health_care economic_policy rhetoric via:jbdelong moral_philosophy debunking evisceration reinhard.uwe</dc:subject>
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    <title>Problems with the Use of Student Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers</title>
    <dc:date>2010-09-13T17:18:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://epi.3cdn.net/724cd9a1eb91c40ff0_hwm6iij90.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["consequences of students ... not being randomly assigned to teachers within a school. It uses a [Value-Added Measure] to assign effects to teachers after controlling for other factors, but applies the model backwards.... [S]tudents’ fifth grade teachers appear to be good predictors of students’ fourth grade test scores. Inasmuch as a student’s later fifth grade teacher cannot possibly have influenced that student’s fourth grade performance, this curious result can only mean that students are systematically grouped into fifth grade classrooms based on their fourth grade performance. ... The usefulness of value-added modeling requires the assumption that teachers whose performance is being compared have classrooms with students of similar ability (or that the analyst has been able to control statistically for all the relevant characteristics of students that differ across classrooms). ..."
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<dc:subject>education debunking management bad_data_analysis via:orzelc standardized_testing value-added_measurement_in_education in_NB</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2607">
    <title>Language Log » Are “heavy media multitaskers” really heavy media multitaskers?</title>
    <dc:date>2010-09-05T15:47:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2607</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[With a gracious comment by one of the authors of the paper in question.
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<dc:subject>studies_do_not_show experimental_psychology debunking liberman.mark multitasking attention</dc:subject>
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    <title>&quot;Revival of test bias research in preemployment testing&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2010-08-05T23:13:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://psycnet.apa.org/?&amp;fa=main.doiLanding&amp;doi=10.1037/a0018714</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Those studies you ran to show that your standardized tests had no predictive bias?  Had no power to detect bias when it exists. Get back to us when you've got sample sizes of 10^5 from the minority groups.  HTH.  (Application to IQ is let as an exercise to the reader.)  --- But oh, those tables are so awful and ugly!
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<dc:subject>mental_testing iq debunking to:blog have_read via:fred_feinberg re:g_paper correlational_psychology</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9270.html">
    <title>Quiggin, J.: Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us.</title>
    <dc:date>2010-07-23T12:38:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9270.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The cover is adorable.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics quiggin.john debunking popular_social_science books:recommended books:owned</dc:subject>
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