Playing high school sports makes women have more children? Not so fast. Andrew Gelman - May 19, 2014 [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="606" special=""] A softball game at Blair
Smart Hurricane Names: A Policy Intervention that Costs Almost Nothing but Should Attract Billions of Dollars in Aid Joshua Tucker - April 1, 2013 The following guest post is from Adam Alter, an assistant professor of
Did Steven Levitt really believe in 2008 that Obama “would be the greatest president in history”? Andrew Gelman - January 3, 2013 In the interview we discussed a couple months ago, Steven
Which Social Science Should Disappear? John Sides - July 10, 2012 Over at Freakonomics, Sudhir Venkatesh is conducting a poll: Imagine
Some disputes (at the sister blog) Andrew Gelman - March 20, 2012 Freakonomics. Hot hand. Economics & Freudian psychology. Ranking philosophy departments.
It’s funny what can change in three years Andrew Gelman - October 4, 2011 The Freakonomics blog reports: Yesterday, Oct. 3, 2011, the S&P
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
Kaus for Senate, Part 2, also a gratuitious criticism of the education establishment Andrew Gelman - April 30, 2010 I missed this one the first time around: Kaus writes
Babies as vote-getters? This is news to me, but maybe there’s some research on the topic? Andrew Gelman - March 28, 2010 From Freakonomics blog: In the U.K., however, Conservative leader David