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"2% per degree Celsius . . . the magic number for how worker productivity responds to warm/hot temperatures" - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
http://andrewgelman.com/2012/09/17/persistently-reduced-labor-productivity-may-be-one-of-the-largest-economic-impacts-of-anthropogenic-climate-change
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science. Laquo; Uri Simonsohn is speaking at Columbia tomorrow (Mon). More studies on the economic effects of climate change. 8220;2% per degree Celsius . . . the magic number for how worker productivity responds to warm/hot temperatures”. On 17 September 2012, 9:29 am. Solomon Hsiang shares some bad news:. Persistently reduced labor productivity may be one of the largest economic impacts of anthropogenic climate change. . . . In my 2010 PNAS paper.
slatestarcodex.com
The Case Of The Famous Physicist | Slate Star Codex
http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/03/the-case-of-the-famous-physicist
Open threads at the Open Thread tab every Sunday and Wednesday. The Case Of The Famous Physicist. July 3, 2015. Old news, but I only just heard about it: Long Island woman says psych ward doctors believed she was delusional for insisting Obama follows her on Twitter. I don’t know anything about this case or this person, and I definitely don’t want this to sound like I have anything to say one way or the other about this person I have never met. But I’ve been involved in enough simil...The bizarre experie...
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Charles Murray on the new upper class - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
http://andrewgelman.com/2012/02/some-reactions-to-charles-murrays-thoughts-on-income-and-politics
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science. Laquo; The tabloids strike again. 8220;False-positive psychology”. Charles Murray on the new upper class. On 15 February 2012, 9:00 pm. The other day I posted some comments. 1 I was unfair to call him a Tucker Carlson. 2 Murray talks a lot about upper-class liberals. That’s fine but I think his discussion would be improved by also considering upper-class conservatives, given that I see the big culture war occurring within the upper class. Gettin...
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Trouble Walking Down The Hallway | Slate Star Codex
http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/15/trouble-walking-down-the-hallway
Open threads at the Open Thread tab every Sunday and Wednesday. Trouble Walking Down The Hallway. April 15, 2015. Williams and Ceci just released National Hiring Experiments Reveal 2:1 Faculty Preference For Women On STEM Tenure Track. Showing a strong bias in favor of women in STEM hiring. I’ve previously argued something like this was probably the case, so I should be feeling pretty vindicated. But a while ago I wrote Beware The Man Of One Study. Writes Study Shows Gender Bias In Science Is Real. And a...
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