Another kind of "game" theory
Alan Greenspan wooed his first wife by inviting her to his apartment so that he could read her an article he had written on monopolies: We had been discussing monopolies at dinner, and I was trying to...
View ArticleAnother type of mystification
A long time ago (in years, two more than the product of 10 and the length of a single American presidential term) John Siegfried wrote this First Lesson in Econometrics (PDF). It starts with this:...
View ArticleHunger Games critiques
My Hunger Games survival analysis post keeps getting great feedback. The latest anonymous comment: Nice effort on the analysis, but the data is not suitable for KM and Cox. In KM, Cox and practically...
View ArticleBest billboard ever?
I have no idea whether this is an effective ad… but: (Also note the address at the bottom: there’s no commonly-used system for designating addresses in Addis — or most road names for that matter — so...
View ArticleDo they know it's Christmas? No, because it isn't.
Remember “Do they know it’s Christmas?” That’s right, the 1984 hit song intended to raise money for famine victims in Ethiopia. If that’s not ringing a bell (See what I did there?) then here’s the...
View Article#MiddleEarthPublicHealth
The weekend is almost here, and the new year — so how to celebrate? For a start, here are the results of a mashup meme I tried to start last night on Twitter: #MiddleEarthPublicHealth:...
View ArticleFun projects are fun
Jay Ulfelder, of the blog Dart-Throwing Chimp, recently wrote a short piece in praise of fun projects. He links to my Hunger Games survival analysis, and Alex Hanna’s recent application of survival...
View ArticleYear in review – infographic style!
It’s been about six months since I wrote a real blog post other than a link round-up. One of my 2014 resolutions is to write more regularly — either for this blog or for myself — and I’m calling on...
View ArticleTaxi conversations (caution: low external validity)
I will try not to generalize too much — a la Thomas Friedman — from conversations with taxi drivers to entire cultures or the state of nations, but I thought these three were worth sharing: In Zambia...
View ArticleMerci, FIFA
This is a French-language FIFA billboard about Ebola: It has 11 anti-Ebola messages from famous footballers, which happen to be printed small enough to be unreadable from the street or sidewalk. Not...
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