What Ockham Really Said, the Math of Marital Ruin, and More Data Links

time to share links to interesting posts i found here and there this week. we should start with

• “what ockham really said” http://boingboing.net/… via cynorrhodon

among many other posts and articles,

• “complex calculations faced by those who select people for powerful, lifetime positions” http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/… via cuttheknotmath
• “scientists who engage with society perform better academically” http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4672 (a 2008 paper, via inundata )
• “too big to fail has become too big for trial” via http://thebrowser.com/…
• “on the value of academic blogging” http://ft.com/intl/… via http://themonkeycage.org/blog/
• “when it comes to fear of flying, it’s the idea that risk should be treated purely as a number which is irrational” http://guardian.co.uk/science/…
• “is economics more insular than i thought?” http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/is-…
• deep inside # bigdata ”a massive data set of 10,000 porn stars” http://jonmillward.com/blog/ … via margrev e.g stats by names

• “who pays teachers best for their time” via emmadefaud and http://blog.francetvinfo.fr/l-instit-humeurs/…
• “the nature of risk preferences: evidence from insurance choices” http://papers.ssrn.com/…
• “did an excel error bring down the london whale?” http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/… via rbloggers
• [ for geeks only ] ”a mathematical model of sentimental dynamics accounting for marital dissolution” http://plosone.org/… with a bonus figure

• “the importance of excel” http://baselinescenario.com/ … ” perils of bad software in the business world and the financial industry in particular “
• ”much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong” http://theatlantic.com/magazine…
• “we’re more fooled by noise than ever before, and it’s because of a nasty phenomenon called ‘big data’.” http://wired.com/…
• “data visualization gallery” http://census.gov/dataviz/ ”a weekly exploration of census data.”

• “the technical competence of economic policymakers” http://voxeu.org/article/technical-… via went1955
• “retraction is exploding, replicability of research diminishing, and our measure of journal quality is farcical” http://guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/…
• “jewish problems” http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556
• “global r&d: an overview” http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.ca/ … based on http://.bruegel.org/publications/… see e.g. r&d expenditures as % of gdp

• “will subway fares rise? check at your pizza” http://nytimes.com/ … in the 80′s via http://futilitycloset.com/…
• “does knuckle cracking lead to arthritis of the fingers?” http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9588755 or http://blog.sethroberts.net/… [for the pdf] nice dataset,want to see it
• “even (mixed) risk lovers are prudent” http://lem.cnrs.fr/… see also http://papers.ssrn.com/ …
• “life expectancy as a constructed belief: evidence of a live-to or die-by framing effect” http://papers.ssrn.com/ … via harvardbiz
• “how much does hip surgery cost? somewhere between $10,000 and $125,000″ http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog …
• “seven decades of raising prices” (in nyc) http://go.bloomberg.com/market-now/…