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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Keynes, Anti-Semite? Really?
Pardon the intrusion — but I find this interesting. There’s a diary entry of Keynes being circulated around that supposedly proves Keynes was an anti-Semite. This is meant to be a brilliant rebuttal to Paul Krugman’s “Keynes was Right” column … Continue reading
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Why the I Love Charts post is the most beautiful thing I’ve read today
Why the I Love Charts post is the most beautiful thing I’ve read today There’s so much to like in this post. It starts with nuanced exploration of feminism, terminology, and privilege, but ends as a reflection of the difficulties … Continue reading
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Klout wins for this year’s stupidest bar chart
Check it out here: http://blog.infoadvisors.com/index.php/2011/12/22/stupidest-bar-chart-of-2011-congrats-klout/ I’m not sure how you trust a company who claims to have some super-secret statistical insight when they put out things like this.
A Herd Immunity to Nonsense
Mark Pagel on the internet and our cultural evolution: A tiny number of ideas can go a long way, as we’ve seen. And the Internet makes that more and more likely. What’s happening is that we might, in fact, be … Continue reading
Cognitive Bias and Education as a Public Good
A strange but true exhortation from Dan Kahneman, the guy who, with Amos Tversky, basically invented the field of cognitive bias. After forty years of looking into the weird world of bias he says the only effective way to get … Continue reading
Evidence-Based and the Marginal Cost of Zero
If you can conceive of a solution to a problem that has a marginal cost of zero due to cheap replication and economies of scale, then that’s good. If you’re doing that by going into the digital space, where cost … Continue reading
From Obama’s 2012 campaign blog. I am glad to see them standing up for what they accomplished here instead of running from it. This is truly something that the administration should be proud of. guardian: Photograph: Brian J. Clark/AP Two … Continue reading
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Semantic Mapping vs. Pictorial Cues
From A Theory-Based Meta-Analysis of Research on Instruction by RJ Marzano: The next two techniques displayed in Table 7.2 employed the information processing function of idea representation. Techniques that provided students with metacognitive strategies for using visual memory had an effect … Continue reading
Stanovich on Conflict and Critical Thinking
Well, actually the Hitchcock review of Stanovich: What types of people succeed in overriding interactional intelligence in conflict situations? As one might expect, subjects with greater cognitive ability (as measured by SAT Total scores) were more likely to do so. … Continue reading
Openness as a Privilege Multiplier and the MIT Certificates
This is pretty huge news: Millions of learners have enjoyed the free lecture videos and other course materials published online through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s OpenCourseWare project. Now MIT plans to release a fresh batch of open online courses—and, for the … Continue reading
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