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Hyper-success and the globalization of envy | Paul Litvak
http://www.paullitvak.com/2014/05/31/hyper-success-and-the-globalization-of-envy
Who is this guy? Hyper-success and the globalization of envy. Economists have written about the star system and the impact of globalization on inequality. 8220;, Scott Rick and George Loewenstein interpret experimental evidence showing that people in more fierce competitions are more likely to cheat out of loss aversion, and a sense that they are only getting themselves what they feel they are entitled to or deserve (they talk about this in the context of fraud in psychology). May 31, 2014. 2 Emotion the...
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Three authors misunderstanding nudges | Paul Litvak
http://www.paullitvak.com/2014/10/06/three-authors-misunderstanding-nudges
Who is this guy? Three authors misunderstanding nudges. David Berreby’s critique of nudging. Jeremy Waldron’s critique of nudging. Steven Poole’s critique of nudging. An argument that all three of these pieces make is that nudging depends upon the ignorance of the populace in order to be effective. And this is an affront to human dignity. If the “nudge” works correctly, you can’t evaluate the attempt to influence you, because you aren’t aware of it. 3 Awareness of direction and magnitude of the bias.
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in which I comment on meritocracy | Paul Litvak
http://www.paullitvak.com/2013/02/22/in-which-i-comment-on-meritocracy
Who is this guy? In which I comment on meritocracy. Link, which of course touches on many of the same themes as Chris Hayes’ Twilight of the Elites. This connects up to a comment that Cosma Shalizi. Made regarding my previous post on SimGradSchool. If you read Scott Page’s terrific book on diversity, The Difference. He utilizes simulation to compellingly argue that the key to solving difficult problems is having a diversity of viewpoints drawn from a large pool of possible ways of thinking. Cosma and...
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meritocracy | Paul Litvak
http://www.paullitvak.com/tag/meritocracy
Who is this guy? Why a focus on p-hacking is misplaced, or the coming co-evolution. There has been a lot of recent work on p-hacking (making things statistically significant through taking advantage of analysis degrees-of-freedom), which I think is good (it’s starting to make people aware of the scope of the problem facing social psychology and related fields); however, I think people are missing something fundamental. As Tal Yarkoni recently pointed. One objection might be that anyone smart enough to do...
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Why social science grad students would make great product managers | Paul Litvak
http://www.paullitvak.com/2013/05/16/why-social-science-grad-students-would-make-great-product-managers
Who is this guy? Why social science grad students would make great product managers. What does a product manager do? But wait, there’s more! Once the product is actually launched, it is typically still worked on and improved (or fixed). So the product manager is also the person that gets to figure out how to prioritize the various additional work that could be done. But how do they figure out what needs to be changed or fixed? This is one of the places where research comes in! Users are using this featur...
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simulation | Paul Litvak
http://www.paullitvak.com/tag/simulation
Who is this guy? SimGradSchool, a study in new faculty hiring practices. Attention conservation notice: 2000 words about hiring in academia including an overly complex numerical model. Navel gazing surely to follow.]. Like many other social science graduate students who have graduated in the last 5-10 years. I have experienced the ratcheting up of competition. So what does the hiring game today look like? A few recent papers give us some clues. First, there’s this. Yes, in all likelihood. However, wh...
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evolution | Paul Litvak
http://www.paullitvak.com/tag/evolution
Who is this guy? Why a focus on p-hacking is misplaced, or the coming co-evolution. There has been a lot of recent work on p-hacking (making things statistically significant through taking advantage of analysis degrees-of-freedom), which I think is good (it’s starting to make people aware of the scope of the problem facing social psychology and related fields); however, I think people are missing something fundamental. As Tal Yarkoni recently pointed. One objection might be that anyone smart enough to do...
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diversity | Paul Litvak
http://www.paullitvak.com/tag/diversity
Who is this guy? In which I comment on meritocracy. Link, which of course touches on many of the same themes as Chris Hayes’ Twilight of the Elites. This connects up to a comment that Cosma Shalizi. Made regarding my previous post on SimGradSchool. If you read Scott Page’s terrific book on diversity, The Difference. He utilizes simulation to compellingly argue that the key to solving difficult problems is having a diversity of viewpoints drawn from a large pool of possible ways of thinking. Cosma and...
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Cloud Matters
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Ideas, observations and stories about the business of Information Technology. Gun Violence is Over. Unfortunately, any idea of really ending gun violence in the US is no more believable on April Fools day than on any other day. It’s no joke. Not that the vast majority of Americans wouldn’t like to see that. It’s just what they want. More than 90% want universal background checks. Yet the congress is frozen in place. Iced by the NRA. . A December article in the Atlantic. Proposed that Big Data in the...
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First post | Paul Litvak
http://www.paullitvak.com/2010/01/04/hello-world
Who is this guy? After a long hiatus I set this up so I could post random musings on topics I couldn’t put anywhere else. Coming very soon, a project I have been working on– SimGradSchool. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. January 4, 2010. SimGradSchool, a study in new faculty hiring practices →. Follow me on G. Proudly powered by WordPress.
