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Juan Williams: when people give themselves permission to act badly
The wonderful Muslims Wearing Things tumblr blog has the right response to Juan Williams's stupid comment, But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I […]
Data use caution 2
Some additional thoughts on analyzing something like graduation/dropping out: if one looks at the transitions between attendance and nonattendance as generally clear but not always, there should be no surprise that we don't have great tools to predict whether someone is going to graduate or not from high school. That's because those tools are poor […]
Unholy alliance proposal #573: FinReg and journalism
Inspired by a blog entry today by Ezra Klein’s research intern and today’s Dilbert cartoon, I had a crazy thought for addressing both the decline of commercial journalism and Wall Street lapses: is there a way to give solid journalism a revenue source that also forces more transparency/responsibility on Wall Street? One idea for better […]
An immodest and hopefully obvious proposal for electronic citations
I had a thought today after reading of Barnes & Noble’s new iPad app, which allows customers to loan/borrow purchased books. I haven’t heard whether the annotations go along with the lending, but it strikes me that academics needing to cite locations in ebooks and those interested in annotation technology both need a way to […]
Two program notes
By Sherman Dorn on December 2, 2010
It's the tail end of the semester, which means I have to fight off a horrid case of Shiny Bright Object Syndrome. I need to remind myself that the reason why I have an almost-irresistible urge to blog on a number of topics, read great books, attempt the Bartok or Penderecki viola concertos,* and try […]
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