http://www.economist.com/node/18483423?story_id=18483423&CFID=160796263&CFTOKEN=71303356 After reading this, I'm seriously considering finding someplace online that sells those little Lacoste crocodiles and sewing them onto all my shirts. The power of logos appears to be ridiculous for the trivial outlay.
The Efficient Markets Hypothesis suggest they shouldn't exist but in its strong form it's wrong. Otherwise there would be far fewer businesspeople who are successful in multiple largely unrelated industries. Alternatively, those people are special and those opportunities are not available to you. I think this is basically it. Those...
Discussion article for the meetup : Shanghai Meetup WHEN: 02 April 2013 07:30:00PM (+0800) WHERE: Boxing Cat Brewery, 82 Fuxing Xi Lu, near Yongfu Lu, Shanghai, China I will be here_shanghai)) from 7. I look like this. The food has been decent every time I've been and it's non smoking...
Discussion article for the meetup : Meetup Wednesday, 7:30 WHEN: 20 February 2013 01:07:30PM (+0800) WHERE: Salley Garden, 480 Yongjia Lu, near Yueyang Lu, Shanghai Salley Garden 480 Yongjia Lu (near Yueyang Lu), (map), at 7:30 p.m If someone else has a topic they want to talk about for a...
Discussion article for the meetup : Shanghai Meetup WHEN: 28 January 2013 07:00:00PM (+0800) WHERE: 45 Yue Yang Road, near Dong Ping Road, Shanghai There's going to be a meetup 7p.m. Monday evening at Abbey Road. Two other people have said they'll be attending as well. I'll be giving a...
Popularisation, extremely short Original Article [pdf] When intentions go public: does social reality widen the intention-behavior gap? Gollwitzer PM, Sheeran P, Michalski V, Seifert AE. Source New York University, Psychology Department, New York, NY 10003, USA. peter.gollwitzer@nyu.edu Abstract Based on Lewinian goal theory in general and self-completion theory in particular,...
Discussion article for the meetup : Dublin, IE, Meetup WHEN: 15 October 2011 02:00:00PM (+0100) WHERE: College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland Meet at Starbucks on College Green here I'll be there even if noone replies, for an hour. My phone number is 086 3561738 Discussion article for the meetup :...
Influence and manipulation are both attempts to alter the actions or propensity to act of another agent. The only difference between the two that can generally relied upon is that the one who calls it manipulation finds it distasteful or immoral. If you disagree I invite you to find a...
Surely this calls for data analysis? I’ve seen Economics papers on publication and placement for PhD students by programme, and I think for Sociology. There are almost certainly relevant publications for your field and if there aren’t you could probably get a publishable paper out of writing up your own research.
If you’re in Year 2 of your programs and on track to have three publications by Year 5 your personal probability of getting a tenure track position must be 50% or higher, not 25%. Again, this calls for data. The 25% of your programme’s graduates do get placed; what kind of publication records did they have on graduation? Compare yourself to the... (read more)
If you are in that position surely the economically rational thing to do would be to juice your returns by borrowing to invest more?
The consultants aren’t parasites. They offer something extremely valuable, on call, disposable expertise without requiring you to hire another full time employee. If you have a month’s work for someone but that someone needs to actually know what they’re doing right now then paying a large premium can make sense very quickly. Convenience and lack of expectation of continued employment are part of what contractors generally provide.
I see the appeal of actually making a thing but the thing can equally be an info-product like a book or course that also serves as proof of expertise. That serves as a casing card for consulting services too. Margins are better on services and information products than on physical objects.
The Efficient Markets Hypothesis suggest they shouldn't exist but in its strong form it's wrong. Otherwise there would be far fewer businesspeople who are successful in multiple largely unrelated industries.
Alternatively, those people are special and those opportunities are not available to you. I think this is basically it. Those people are special. They have higher risk tolerance.. They're just willing to work harder than you are. They have expertise that you don't have access to, most of it accumulated by doing the work. So there may be quick wins, and there may be easy wins but there will be few quick, easy wins and they'll rapidly be exhausted as they become publicised.
That... (read 414 more words →)
Do you have any experience teaching, interacting with or mentoring 14-18 year olds that makes you confident some small minority of them can do this? If you please give details.
Based on my own experience I strongly suspect the only way to do this is to fail repeatedly until you succeed. That said the following rules are very, very good.
If you really, really want an example I can send you my Developmental Psychology and Learning and Behaviour Deck. It consists of the entirety of a Cliff's Notes kind of Developmental Psychology book, a better dev psych's summary section and an L&B book's summary section. In retrospect the Cliff's Notes book was a mistake but I've invested enough in it now that I may as well continue it, most of the cards are mature anyway. I would recommend finding a decent book on... (read 657 more words →)
It may not be an effective way to help people but it sure as hell helps you up to do it up to three times a year. All hail longevity! I regret I am in a rush so I can't link but I believe RomeoSteverns' post on optimising your health has the references.
I have heard that in economics and possibly other social sciences Ph.D. students can staple together three journal articles, call it a dissertation and get awarded their doctorate. But I've recently read "Publication, Publication" by Gary King, which I interpret as saying a very bright and hardworking undergraduate can write a quantitative political science article in the space of a semester, while carrying a normal class load.
This is confusing. Now, Dr. King teaches at Harvard so all his students are smart and it's two students writing one paper but this still seems insane. I'm guessing a full course load is around 6 classes a term and people are to write a journal... (read more)
They have examination centres in many, many countries, the USA included.
... (read more)Centres in the United Kingdom Belfast, Darlington, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Jersey, Leeds, London, Newcastle, Newport (Gwent), Sheffield, Southport, Titchfield, York.
Centres outside the UK Alphabetical list of current non-UK centres, including some that have not been used for a few years.
Our professional exams are not offered in Hong Kong. Instead, the Hong Kong Statistical Society provides professional exams of an equivalent standard.
Anguilla: The Valley Australia: Perth; Sydney Austria: Vienna Barbados: St Michael Bermuda: Paget Brunei: Darussalam Canada: Montreal; Victoria, BC; Yukon College Cyprus: Nicosia Germany: Cologne Ghana: Accra Gibraltar: Gibraltar Greece: Athens Grenada: St Georges Guyana: Georgetown India: Mumbai Ireland: Dublin Italy: Rome Jamaica: Kingston Japan: Tokyo Kenya: Nairobi Korea (South): Seoul Lithuania: Vilnius Malawi: Lilongwe Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur; Kuching Malta: Valletta Mauritius: Port Louis Montserrat: Brades Netherlands: Amsterdam New Zealand: Wellington Nigeria: Lagos Philippines: Pasig
(Friedman, among other things, supported a version of guaranteed basic income. To which today's GOP mainstream would probably say, "but if we do that, it will just make poor people even lazier!")
He supported a large negative income tax for those on the lowest (earned) incomes, tapering off to zero, then positive as earned income increased. This is really very far from a guaranteed basic income.
I will be here_shanghai)) from 7. I look like this. The food has been decent every time I've been and it's non smoking inside. If you want, read the Checklist of Rationality Habits before you come and we can discuss that. No compulsion to do so, one of the important things is to have fun. The nearest metro station is Shanghai Library. 82 Fuxing Xi Lu, near Yongfu Lu 复兴路82号, 近永福路
Salley Garden 480 Yongjia Lu (near Yueyang Lu), (map), at 7:30 p.m
If someone else has a topic they want to talk about for a bit before we just talk, say it in the comments, otherwise I'll edit this next lunchtime with what we'll spend a while talking about before just chatting.
Last time we had four people from the mailing list show up apart from me and a friend. There was good conversation and good food but unfortunately we didn't get to board games.
All two times I've been there the food
There's going to be a meetup 7p.m. Monday evening at Abbey Road. Two other people have said they'll be attending as well. I'll be giving a short talk on cognitive biases and the we can discuss it and chat. The food is good, and they have board games too for slightly later. I look like this and will have a copy of Thinking, Fast and Slow on the table.
Popularisation, extremely short
New York University, Psychology Department, New York, NY 10003, USA. peter.gollwitzer@nyu.edu
Based on Lewinian goal theory in general and self-completion theory in particular, four experiments examined the implications of other people taking notice of one's identity-related behavioral intentions (e.g., the intention to read law periodicals regularly to reach the identity goal of becoming a lawyer). Identity-related behavioral intentions that had been noticed by other people were translated into action less intensively than those that had been ignored (Studies 1-3). This effect was evident in the field (persistent striving over 1 week's time; Study 1) and
Meet at Starbucks on College Green here
I'll be there even if noone replies, for an hour. My phone number is 086 3561738
Influence and manipulation are both attempts to alter the actions or propensity to act of another agent. The only difference between the two that can generally relied upon is that the one who calls it manipulation finds it distasteful or immoral. If you disagree I invite you to find a general principle cleanly dividing the following examples into manipulation and influence; all the better if it can be made uncontroversial.
A woman telling her long-term boyfriend that they're not getting married before he gets his doctorate.
A man teasing a friend.
A man teasing a female friend.
A man teasing a female friend, flirting.
A man teasing a female friend, flirting with intent.
A man teasing a woman... (read more)
http://www.economist.com/node/18483423?story_id=18483423&CFID=160796263&CFTOKEN=71303356
After reading this, I'm seriously considering finding someplace online that sells those little Lacoste crocodiles and sewing them onto all my shirts. The power of logos appears to be ridiculous for the trivial outlay.
If you have a goal that can be credibly achieved by the end of the month reply to this post. At the end of the month everybody who posted writes up their experiences, lessons in overcoming akrasia etc. as a reply to their original comment or by editing the original.
Whether you want to share the goal before the end of the month is up to you, pros, you are accountable, cons, you may feel a sense of accomplishment just by saying it and not do anything.
Can’t you staple three papers together with filler/linking material and call it “Essays in Political Science” or a narrower topic if you’ve been focused?
I suggest emailing Chris Blattman and Bryan Caplan and asking for advice. Greet, be brief and to the point. I suggest Blattman because he works as a political scientist though he was trained as an economist. If your statistical skills are good you can do very well outside academia. Amazon Economists (PhD required) are getting over $175K starting. Bryan Caplan I suggest because he suggests academia is a truly amazing job for some and the competition isn’t that high.
https://www.econlib.org/jason-brennansgood-work-if-you-can-keep-it/