Infinite Monkey Theorems (aka Random Links) 20100210
February 10, 2010
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Posted by Michael S. Langston
- Great Real World parody exposing the laughable notion of “transparency”. Brought to you by Reason.tv (video here)
- BBC Journalist proves… yet again, most journalists don’t understand much of anything…. In a pieced entitled Why do people vote against their own interests?. In true self-serving tripe form, instead of doing the right thing, checking their premises on the question they seek to answer; they instead assume that people are actually voting against themselves when nominal logic and understanding of humans shows pretty convincingly that humans operate on incentives. But that won’t stop them – they are smarter than those people, know exactly how they should vote, and therefore know that the reasons they don’t is some conspiracy from evil propagandists.
- Mark Roe writing for the Harvard Legal blog chastising the pro-freedom SCOTUS decision to remove the arbitrary distinction of corporations with respect to freedom of speech (his argument, DA’s stance). It’s another example of hand wringing over what will happen to the poor hapless masses when they are forced to see political ads by business interests. He writes without once admitting that this conclusion assumes that business will be prone for tons of additional political funding. It also assumes people are too stupid and will be swayed easily by lots of commercials. & lastly, he completely ignores the fact that businesses have NO reason to buy politicians if politicians didn’t exert so much control that it becomes imperative for businesses to be involved.
- So long as politicians, with a simple wave of the hand can truly affect a businesses’ ability to continue to operate, then reality dictates those businesses will use resources, money or others, to stay in business.
- A good Mark Cuban post stating (among other things) “The simplest way to create more jobs is to allow small business and entrepreneurs to spend less time and money on lawyers and accountants and redirect that intellectual and financial capital to the core competencies of their business….”
- The Economist blog post on Gendered peer effects which shows research demonstrating the peer effect on school performance. As expected, they found that as the percentage of peers an individual has who about at the bottom 1/4, the more likely that person will have subpar performance.
- & just for something interesting… What would men do if they didn’t have to impress women?…. which seems intuitive: “The results show that if there were no returns to career choices in the marriage market, men would tend to work less, study less, and choose blue?collar jobs over white?collar jobs.”
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