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Data collection
| Gabriel | A few months ago I took this picture at a rest stop on I-40 near Tucumcari, New Mexico. It struck me as pretty funny that the highway department would collect quality control data in this...
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So long (distinctive) Notre Dame economics
| Gabriel | For many years Notre Dame had a “heterodox” economics department known for approaches that were less rosy on laissez-faire policy and formal modeling methods than your typical econ...
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Towards a sociology of living death
| Gabriel | Daniel Drezner had a post a few months ago talking about how international relations scholars of the four major schools would react to a zombie epidemic. Aside from the sheer fun of talking...
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A Note on the Uses of Official Statistics
| Gabriel | They are ourselves, I replied; and they see only the shadows of the images which the fire throws on the wall of the den; to these they give names, and if we add an echo which returns from...
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Science (esp. econ) made fun
| Gabriel | In a review essay, Vromen talks about the (whodathunkit) popular book/magazine-column/blog genre of economics-made-fun that’s become a huge hit with the mass audience in the last 5 to 10...
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I am shocked–shocked–to find scientists abusing peer review
| Gabriel | A major climate lab in Britain was hacked (leaked?) last week and a lot of the material was really embarrassing. Stuff along the lines of obstruction of freedom of information requests,...
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Misc Links, etc
| Gabriel | David Grazian has a two part interview with the rock critic Chuck Klosterman at the Contexts podcast (part one and part two). There’s a lot of neat stuff in there about cultural reception,...
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wos2tab.pl
| Gabriel | One of my grad students is doing some citation network analysis, for which the Python script (and .exe wrapper) wos2pajek is very well-suited. (Since most network packages can read “.net”...
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You Broke Peer Review. Yes, I Mean You
| Gabriel | I’m as excited as anybody about Sociological Science as it promises a clean break from the “developmental” model of peer review by moving towards an entirely evaluative model. That is, no...
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Cultural Learnings of Economics for Make Benefit Glorious Discipline of...
| Gabriel | [Note, if you subscribe by RSS or email you might have gotten an earlier and incomplete version of this that I posted by accident on 5/25/13] A few weeks ago the political scientist Henry...
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