- Take a quantitative research class with Gary King, online. Starts Monday. (Update: It appears there are rather steep costs)
- A conversation with Lant Pritchett
- Time to help me defend my title at Aid Bloggers Best Awards (or nominate my competitors)
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Harvard charges 50$ to register for the class :-( not saying that’s not worth it, but I don’t really know what I’m getting for the money and comparable offers from Stanford and MIT are free.
The course costs $1,025 in addition to the $50 registration fee. I made the mistake of registering without realizing that the registration was in addition to the course fee, which isn’t listed on the course’s webpage. I’m now out $50 unless I want to spend an addition $1,025 (a months salary as an NGO worker abroad), though this is largely because I’m an idiot and rushed to sign up.
that’s _seriously_ not cool from King. He tweeted all over the net “come take a statistics class with us” – there was no talk about “come take a statistics class for $1075 with us” and no mention of any fees on the course page.
Considering that free comparable online classes are offered elsewhere, that’s more than just a little misleading advertising.
I would assume that Chris had not posted this had he been aware of the costs?
A recent interesting link: http://epw.in/epw/uploads/articles/17021.pdf
From Economic & Political Weekly, Mumbai
What are the free alternatives that are most comparable? I was interested in the class but can’t really afford it. I can’t seem to figure out which course would be similar at MIT–but maybe it’s in econ and not poli sci?