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Marriage and Divorce in the United States: A Trend

I’ve been meaning to start up a new series of posts that is mostly data-driven, showcasing some interesting bit of information that I’ve come across. Finding a really interesting chart, and then tracking down the data behind it is as good an excuse as any. Courtesy of H.

Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic Book Review

Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic by Matt McCarthy, MD Avery (May 21, 2019) ISBN 0735217505 I received a free copy of this book through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program. Superbugs is a fascinating book, and I’m glad I had the chance to review it. This book is

Is the rate of production of useful ideas really dependent on the number of people involved?

Conversations with Tyler is one of my favorite long reads at the moment. This recent talk with economist Paul Romer [recent winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics] overlaps nicely with many of my current obsessions [including English orthography!]. Today, let’s look at the rate of production of

What works in healthcare?

Short answer: almost nothing. I’m being flip about a very serious subject, but at the same time I am in fact serious. Modern medicine probably works a lot less well than you probably think it does. How could I say such a thing when you look at graphs like

LinkFest 2018-07-16

LinkFest 2018-07-16

Ways to think about machine learning I've been a skeptic about artificial intelligence in general, and a critic of the ways the actual technology has been hyped. This is a pretty reasonable take from someone who is willing to invest a lot of money in machine learning. Machine

Linkfest 2018-06-11

I meant to get this one out last Friday. Ah well. How we can learn from the history of protectionism It is easy to find lots of economists who are down on protectionism, but the evidence turns out to be rather mixed on exactly what its effects are. There are

Linkfest 2017-09-09

Posting has been light of late, my home PC needs a new power supply. The replacement should be here by Tuesday. When Correlation Is Not Causation, But Something Much More Screwy UCLA sociologist Gabriel Rossman explains how easy it is to fool yourself with the way you collect your data.