Michael Giberson For more economists caught in the act of navel gazing, check out The Economist‘s forum on the question of whether economists need a professional code of ethics. If you want some background, the urge for a code of ethics came about something like this: Since the end of 2008, economists have been professionally embarrassed by …
Michael Giberson Following up yesterday’s note on randomized testing in free legal aid, here is another kind of applied experimental work: The recently ended Wikipedia fundraising campaign made extensive use of randomized testing to explore just which appeals generated the most revenue. “If everyone reading this donated $5” vs. “If everyone reading this donated $10” …
Randomized Testing for Online Fundraising Appeals Read More »
Michael Giberson Speed blogging = copying a Zetland trope so I can clear these items off my “to blog” list: Robert Rapier on the Renewable Fuels Association‘s wild efforts to hold onto all possible subsidy and policy advantages that it can grab. Elsewhere, the Wall Street Journal reports the emergence of a left-right coalition in …
Michael Giberson Among the many things I am thankful for: this blog, and its readers and commenters. So thank you.
Michael Giberson Complaints about online clothing resellers “preying” on their customers prompted one reseller to open up about the costs of doing business: A reseller friend of mine bought a dress at Anthropologie on first cut sale. The dress originally retailed for $138 and was marked down to $69.95. She listed the dress on eBay …
Lynne Kiesling As Mike said last week, the summer “doldrums” have been in force in KP-land. I have been working on a research project unrelated to electricity, which I’ll be willing to share soon, so there will be more to come on that … and frankly, I’m so disappointed (but not surprised) in the direction …
Michael Giberson I don’t know the answer, so someone let me know if you do, but has the President of the United States ever declared a state of emergency over a local water main break before? According the the announcement, “The President’s action authorizes … Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate all disaster relief …
Michael Giberson In the WSJ, Numbers Guy columnist Carl Bialik explains, “What We Don’t Know About the Economy,” a column about the making of economics statistics and the limits of the process. Of this column John Whitehead commented, “This is required reading for all those who think that economists should have a crystal ball that …
Michael Giberson This sign puzzles me. I assume it is intended as pro-hybrid, pro-energy conservation signal. But the parking space designated is not particularly convenient to the store, so if it is pro-hybrid effort, it is tepid support at best. Usually there are more convenient parking spaces available, and I’ve never seen a car parked …
Michael Giberson David Pennock hears another another tick of the clock in the countdown to web sentience. [In 2003] we trained a computer to answer questions from the then-hit game show by querying Google. We combined words from the questions with words from each answer in mildly clever ways, picking the question-answer pair with the …
Fish Leg Counts: What the Web Knows and Doesn’t Know Read More »
Copyright © 2022 Knowledge Problem Archive