- Caplan -- Schooling & marriage. Why do we treat them differently?
- CDC attempts to transcend sanity.
- McArdle on the future of retail.
- Oz conservative gets QoTD:
I don't know, I went to a school that prides itself on free thinking and allowing students to make up their own mind, and it's general consensus that the white male has not only dominated the world the last 3 centuries, but that it has caused by far the most suffering against other people, both for women and other cultures and races
- Group selection still non-predictive (pdf) HT: Evolutionary Psychology
- Isegoria cites the "tutoring beats every other option" evidence. Feedback systems. Full stop.
Monday, January 23, 2012
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Caplan's college premium is a lot easier to explain than he realizes.
Athenian/Scholar elite promotes education. The point is to get people into the scholar hierarchy; earning premiums are just the story du jour.
Alrenous,
Easier to Explain != more likely to be useful.
I love the GMU bloggers, because while they're all crazy edge-cases like myself...they feel heavily constrained by the data...and are FAR more interested in how to distinguish between the predictive value of competing hypothesis.
Can you give me a how-to-measure predictive value between the two explanations?
I'd check on the lead-up to the no-aptitude-tests court decision
Did you bother to go read the CDC abstract? The person you linked too, made terrible arguments and attributed things to the researchers and their motives that they simply did not possess information on.
Why is it unreasonable to ask a mom in a third world country, where the disease their baby is being vaccinated against may be at fairly high levels, to delay breast feeding by an hour or so?
Also just because breast milk can kill a weakened form of the virus. (And not all of it.) That does not mean that breast milk would kill a stronger form of the virus. It may be that breast milk does help a small percentage of exposed babies resist a virus. More likely it just delays full onset. These are just guesses of course.
I find the article you linked too, merely hysterical, with little real information that is helpful.
Now, if we read the full article, and they said not to breast feed for a full day or stop entirely, I would be pretty annoyed with the researchers.
I could go on, but I'm getting more annoyed the longer I go on, which provides diminishing utility to even posting.
Huh, one of my comments appears to have been eaten. Did I forget to hit publish, or did it get spam filtered, or...?
Alrenous,
Nothing but what I see on the comments page got to me...
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