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Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics (especially statistics)

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

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The most extraordinary detail that's actually still there is the tube. The fact that people don't look at it is proof of its efficie...
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

under the hood

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“You say autism, or Down syndrome, and people know somebody,” said Ms. Dopp, who stays home with Jackson and his three siblings. “When you t...
Thursday, November 4, 2010

black swans

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Andrew Gelman revisits his review of Taleb's The Black Swan. And then there are parts of the review that make me really uncomfortable. ...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Tabarrok on Arrow

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Arrow showed that when a group chooses, there are no underlying preferences to uncover--not even in theory. In one sense , the theorem is tr...

QAQAQA

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I gave an e-interview to Mike Lee a while back for his website, GGGOZU.COM. His photographer turned up shortly before the Elevenses at Thre...
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Monday, October 4, 2010

elevenses at 3

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Sara Ortiz of McNally Jackson Books has very kindly offered to let me turn up there and see if anyone else turns up. Had been thinking of s...
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Saturday, September 25, 2010

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Things have been rather difficult lately for various reasons. I'm going to New York tomorrow to talk to some people; I'll be there u...
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Helen DeWitt
Helen DeWitt is author of The Last Samurai and Lightning Rods, and co-author of Your Name Here with Ilya Gridneff, an Australian journalist.
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