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Links I liked

1. GiveWell loves failure (in a good way) 2. A visualization of  crime in Mexico 3. Martin Ravallion asks whether today’s development workers have the right

Links I liked

1. The most popular infographics 2. Gelman does a brilliant take-down of “the worst graph of the year” 3. A pointed analogy for rape 4.

Before you judge the housekeeper

Some of you enjoyed Mike McGovern’s ethnography of development economists. For those that did, see Andy Gelman’s comment on the statistical argument under Mike’s claims here.

Who gets to be a coauthor?

Andy Gelman’s coverage of a recent economics article has led to a rowdy set of comments about co-authorship norms in economics and political science. From

Links I liked

1. Excellent interview with Andrew Gelman 2. Other thoughts on the Scott book (see last post) from Henry Farrell and the Understanding Society blog 3.

Links I liked

1. Would Gandhi get donor funding? 2. Empire Strikes Bank inducted into Library of Congress 3. Andy Gelman on what’s wrong with the scientific method

The cardinal sin of matching (continued)

Andy Gelman responds to yesterday’s matching rant: I see what Chris is getting at–matching, like regression, won’t help for the variables you’re not controlling for–but

Love, statistically speaking

Andy Gelman points us to statistical love poems for Valentine’s Day. A sample: You are perfect; I’d make no substitutions You remind me of my

Mostly harmless econometrics?

It can be debated whether Mostly Harmless Econometrics is indeed mostly harmless That comes from Andrew Gelman’s review of Mostly Harmless Econometrics–the (comparatively) light and entertaining

When state planning fails

The US government has a Guide to Blogging, including such gems as “Include serial commas for reading ease” and, “Read your link aloud—is it easy

The hitchhiker’s guide to econometrics

Andrew Gelman reviews Mostly Harmless Econometrics on his stats blog. The book, by labor economics greats Angrist and Pischke, reads like an updated, extended version

Does peacekeeping work?

A couple weeks back I blogged Bill Easterly’s critique of military intervention in poor nations. As usual I think Bill is brilliant, but in this

The Walmart wildfire

Last week’s request for the inside scoop on Walmart yielded a great many excellent comments and articles. Today, I am alerted to this incredible visualization

Roundup of links

Blogger Daniel Drezner has an article in Newsweek on how authoritarian leaders have innovated to keep themselves in power. From Andrew Gelman, of the excellent

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