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    <title>2014: What Scientific Idea Is Ready For Retirement? : Standard Deviation (Nassim Nicholas Taleb @ Edge)</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-15T18:15:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.edge.org/response-detail/25401</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Say someone just asked you to measure the "average daily variations" for the temperature of your town (or for the stock price of a company, or the blood pressure of your uncle) over the past five days. The five changes are: (-23, 7, -3, 20, -1). How do you do it?

" Do you take every observation: square it, average the total, then take the square root? Or do you remove the sign and calculate the average? For there are serious differences between the two methods. The first produces an average of 15.7, the second 10.8. The first is technically called the root mean square deviation. The second is the mean absolute deviation, MAD. It corresponds to "real life" much better than the first—and to reality. In fact, whenever people make decisions after being supplied with the standard deviation number, they act as if it were the expected mean deviation.

" It is all due to a historical accident: in 1893, the great Karl Pearson introduced the term "standard deviation" for what had been known as "root mean square error". The confusion started then: people thought it meant mean deviation. The idea stuck: every time a newspaper has attempted to clarify the concept of market "volatility", it defined it verbally as mean deviation yet produced the numerical measure of the (higher) standard deviation. "]]></description>
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    <title>Puff The Magic Sociologist: Sudhir Venkatesh, Gang Leader For A Day, A Rogue Sociologist Takes To The Streets (Claire Potter @ The Chronicle of Higher Education)</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-03T23:07:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/tenuredradical/2009/04/puff-magic-sociologist-review-of-sudhir/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" And I don’t really see guilt here, frankly. I see a sociologist with a literary agent, becoming wealthier and more famous by exploiting the endless fascination that respectable people who live in comfort (and ride on planes) have for the poor. But what I also see is the recuperation of the “hero social scientist,” who does what he wants and exploits who he wants on his way up the career ladder, without regard to any of the research ethics that have been developed over the years to govern such ignorant and irresponsible behavior. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>sociology DNR</dc:subject>
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    <title>CULPA - Sudhir Venkatesh</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-03T02:50:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.culpa.info/professors/3608</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Literally, he is the reason I decided not to be a sociology major.” ]]></description>
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    <title>Venkatesh Responds to the NYT (Bwog)</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-03T02:47:23+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Footnotes | May/June 2012 Issue | The Real Utopia Theme at the 2012 ASA Annual Meeting</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-06T20:18:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/mayjun12/utopia_0512.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“30-minute spoken word performance” … I’m suddenly glad I’ve been too broke this year to pay ASA dues. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>sociology failure</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Ethical Imperialism of Moral Science (Zachary M. Schrag @ Bioethics Forum)</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-04T17:21:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Had the commission understood what human subjects research is under present definitions, it would know that the bulk of human subjects research conducted in the U.S. is not regulated. Nor should it be, if it only involves asking questions of adults. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>sociology academia</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Changing Political Landscape: COSSA 1981-2011 (Brad Smith | American Sociological Association)</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-04T16:54:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/dec11/cossa_1211.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Social scientists need to communicate the value and importance of their research to policy makers in Washington, DC, and throughout America if they want to receive more financial support in the future, a Congressman told Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) members. "]]></description>
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    <title>Sociology invisibility cloak (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-09-27T15:00:15+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>To the sociologists: If you don’t like Vegas, don’t come back (J. Patrick Coolican @ Las Vegas Sun)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-30T18:29:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/aug/29/sociologists-if-you-dont-vegas-dont-come-back/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Protip to other sociologists: Acting like pretentious, uninquisitive asses makes us all look stupid.  ]]></description>
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    <title>Onomasiology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-22T02:09:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomasiology</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[useful for discussing the concept of "concept" - about which a great many academics and pundits remain sadly confused]]></description>
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    <title>Egyptians race to capture the spirit of Tahrir Square (Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-07T19:26:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-egypt-archives-20110707,0,2519253.story</link>
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    <title>How to Save the Social Sciences (Peter Wood @ The Chronicle of Higher Education)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-07T17:16:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/how-to-save-the-social-sciences/29607?sid=at</link>
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    <title>“Standard English” and Social Power (Lisa Wade @ Sociological Images)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-02T18:27:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/02/02/standard-english-and-social-power/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[FFS OMFG epic fail GTFO " So, is text-ese wrong?  Only according to those who are making the rules (and Pearson’s tests). "]]></description>
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    <title>Real Men Find Real Utopias- review of Erik Olin Wright's _Envisioning Real Utopias_ (Russell Jacoby @ Dissent)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-21T23:59:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=3790</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Yet only sociologists force-fed as graduate students will not choke on this book. That many of them have come to adore this stuff is only striking proof of the discipline’s collapse. "]]></description>
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    <title>Terrorism against Sex Workers: It’s time to Take a Stand (Kari Lerum, Shari L. Dworkin @ The Society Pages)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-18T11:30:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thesocietypages.org/sexuality/2010/12/17/terrorism-against-sex-workers-its-time-to-take-a-stand/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sociologists are the absolute last people who should be warping emotionally charged words to mean whatever they want them to mean. See also: Tea Party definitions of socialism and fascism. "given the recent discovery of 4 bodies in Long Island, some or all of whom were women sex workers. Targeted violence on this scale is a form of war, of terrorism, of outright hatred for a particular category of people."]]></description>
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    <title>Lefty academics convene in Berkeley to try to make sense of the Tea Party movement (David Weigel, Slate)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-10-25T18:45:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.slate.com/id/2272097/pagenum/all/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" When they try to label and categorize the politics of these new, conservative radicals, they convince one another but don't break through to the rest of the country. "
]]></description>
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    <title>‘Culture of Poverty’ Makes a Comeback (Patricia Cohen, New York Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-10-19T18:21:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/us/18poverty.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" “We’ve finally reached the stage where people aren’t afraid of being politically incorrect,” said Douglas S. Massey, a sociologist at Princeton who has argued that Moynihan was unfairly maligned.  "
]]></description>
<dc:subject>stratification sociology</dc:subject>
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