- Katja @ OvercomingBias on mate selection. She could answer her question with PUA/status theory. And she rightly states that only the several sigma should have problems.
- Conservative wunderkind-blogger Tino on where the Conservatives are having trouble [link updated]. Tino's always smart, and usually right.
- The Gorgomons put up a post on polling, which has been troubling me for a while. Seems strongly opposed to science. "How do I get the result I expect?" Do any of my readers understand this stuff in such a way that it would make sense to take seriously? UPDATE: Or you could just read Borepatch, who wrote a treatise on the topic.
Monday, November 5, 2012
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Aretae,
Your Tino link is broken.
I found this at his site:
http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2012/11/what-framtidskomissionens-rapport-about.html?m=1
Any impressions?
When I seek con views I go to Derbyshire and Sailer. What is it about those two that you find SO unlinkable in comparison to Tino?
Polling isn't science. It's modeling.
Meh,
Lots to say...my response is epic-length. Trying to keep it short.
1. Tino says that welfare is a bad thing for helping immigrants adapt. I agree. Can I sign up for the unlimited work visas plan, with a 30 day grace period, and no renewals for a year?
2. I've linked both Sailer and Derb from this blog.
3. I find Derb depressingly wrong-headed (much like the reactionaries) on "It used to be better". It didn't. It used to really suck. Now most things are better, and a few things are a little worse. I tend not to link to stuff that contains that direction.
4. I think of economic thinking as central to understanding the world. If you're not thinking game theory, marginal impact, etc... you just don't get it. Sailer, much like Roissy, disses economic thinking from time to time...a reflection of their bad thinking. Probably my decline in linking to both Roissy and Sailer can be traced to a lack of respect coming from their anti-economic nonsense.
5. Groupist arguments are completely wasted on me. Sailer, Derb occasionally make them.
6. Needless to say, Tino, Chicago Booth Econ Wunderkind, doesn't have the economic illiteracy problem. And he never makes groupist arguments. Hence he avoids the idiot arguments, and provides only the good ones. I've been known to link to Griffe du Lion as well, for similar reasons.
7. And one more that gets it's own post.
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