Dr Huber’s Sandwich shop
Slightly anxious researchers that suffer from correlated disturbances shuffle into that shop and ask for the massive 18 centimetre sandwich estimator.
Tag: fun
How Nancy Pelosi could become president
Today, the BBC has a rather amusing piece by Larry Sabato (Virginia) on the “The US election nightmare scenario”: an equal split of the “toss-up” state leads to deadlock in the Electoral College. Enter the unit rule, a constitutional provision which stipulates that the House will select the President in a vote where each state…
Does Powerpoint equal Stalinism?
Like many other people, I just hate PowerPoint. But I had no idea that this pet hate could be the result of a serious
(well) analysis of PP’s ideological flaws. Now I know.
The emerging standard model of socio-physics
[caption id="attachment_46" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Ever tried to get something done around other social scientists?"][/caption] Good stuff: On orgtheory.net Kieran reports on a major breakthrough in the exciting and ever so slightly apocryphal sub-subfield of socio-physics. Beware of the Biggs-Hangeron. Technorati-Tags: fun, obscure, social science, political science