Smart Hurricane Names: A Policy Intervention that Costs Almost Nothing but Should Attract Billions of Dollars in Aid
The following guest post is from Adam Alter, an assistant professor of
Steven Levitt says that he has a “good indicator” that Aaron Edlin, Noah Kaplan, Nate Silver, and I are “not so smart”
Here's the transcript (link from here): DUBNER: So Levitt, how
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* The Kazakh national anthem is not the one they
Flip it around
How does one interpret a comparison? Stephen Dubner says: If
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.
Seeing as the Freakonomics people were kind enough to link