Steven Levitt says that he has a “good indicator” that Aaron Edlin, Noah Kaplan, Nate Silver, and I are “not so smart” Andrew Gelman - October 25, 2012 Here's the transcript (link from here): DUBNER: So Levitt, how
The electoral college favors voters in small states (on average), not large states Andrew Gelman - July 28, 2012 Jonathan Bernstein writes: The big, urban states traditionally did very
A tax on inequality, or a tax to keep inequality at the current level? Andrew Gelman - January 31, 2012 My sometime coauthor Aaron Edlin cowrote (with Ian Ayres) an
“Rationality” reinforces, does not compete with, other models of behavior Andrew Gelman - April 30, 2011 John followed up today on a discussion of his earlier
Arrow’s other theorem Andrew Gelman - April 22, 2011 I received the following email from someone who'd like to
Yes, it can be rational to vote. Yes, your vote could determine the outcome of the election. Maybe if 90% of well-educated, older white people do something, we shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss it as “irrational.” Etc. Andrew Gelman - January 20, 2011 Seeing as the Freakonomics people were kind enough to link
The rationality of voting — an early reference Andrew Gelman - September 17, 2009 Chris Kutz and Aaron Edlin pointed me to this book