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Should you cheat?

Source: Wall Street Oasis

Not too long ago, a business in New Zealand admitted to systematically forging papers on behalf of international Chinese students upon being investigated by local police. To sum up, a gigantic network of ghost writers had been producing quali ...
Full article at: Wall Street Oasis  More like this  5 days ago, 9:37pm CDT

Ben Haller on My Global Warming Econometrics Bleg, by Bryan Caplan

Source: EconLog

I was pleased to see my old friend Ben Haller challenging me in the comments on my global warming econometrics bleg. He's in blockquotes, I'm not: The more crap you throw into the regression, the more it will be overfit and ...
Full article at: EconLog  More like this  5 days ago, 5:01pm CDT

Massachusetts Gaming Commission picks UMass team to study long-term impact of casinos

Source: Casino City Times

10 May 2013 MASSACHUSETTS -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- Today the Massachusetts Gaming Commission announces the engagement of a research team at UMass Amherst to oversee, evaluate and perform a multi-year, multi-method, multi-disciplina ...
Full article at: Casino City Times  More like this  May 10 2013, 3:29pm CDT

Wanted: Data scientists. No math chops? No problem.

Source: CNN/Money

FORTUNE -- Dear Annie: I am expecting to be laid off by a major investment bank (as part of a restructuring the company recently announced) and, instead of trying to find another Wall Street job, I'd like to go into some other ...
Full article at: CNN/Money  More like this  May 10 2013, 10:11am CDT

10 Friday AM Reads

Source: The Big Picture

What are you reading? Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue agai ...
Full article at: The Big Picture  More like this  May 10 2013, 9:18am CDT

Too Big to Fail too Sweet to Give Up

Source: The Big Picture

Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. I ...
Full article at: The Big Picture  More like this  May 10 2013, 7:05am CDT

The Behavioral Experts on Wealth Management

Source: The Big Picture

Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. If you ...
Full article at: The Big Picture  More like this  May 10 2013, 4:13am CDT

For economist/biostats geeks only (a bleg)

Source: The Incidental Economist

If you’re not into instrumental variables (IV) econometrics and/or power calculations don’t bother reading this post. I’m not even going to try to make it widely accessible. But if you are an econ/biostats type, I have a question for you. I want to know ...
Full article at: The Incidental Economist  More like this  May 9 2013, 8:53pm CDT

The Disapproval Matrix

Source: The Big Picture

Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. If you could repea ...
Full article at: The Big Picture  More like this  May 9 2013, 6:30pm CDT

Agriculture ranked 21st in world

Source: InfoNews.co.nz

Massey's agriculture programme is 21st in the world in Quacquarelli Symonds' (QS) world university subject rankings made public yesterday. It is the third-highest ranked agriculture programme in the southern hemisphere, with only the Univers ...
Full article at: InfoNews.co.nz  More like this  May 8 2013, 9:37pm CDT


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