freakonometrics

freakonometrics, 11 months ago to random French

"Listening speaks to our intuition while reading promotes analytic thought" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36355770/ "It is widely assumed that thinking is independent of language modality because an argument is either logically valid or invalid regardless of whether we read or hear it. This is taken for granted in areas such as psychology, medicine, and the law. We demonstrate that thinking from spoken information leads to more intuitive performance compared with thinking from written information."

freakonometrics, 11 months ago to random French

"With researchers reporting high rates of anxiety and depression, calls are growing to fundamentally change science before it’s too late." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01708-4?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=organic&utm_campaign=CONR_JRNLS_AWA1_GL_SCON_SMEDA_NATUREPORTFOLIO

freakonometrics, 1 year ago to random French

"How Markets Crowd Out Morals" https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/forum-sandel-markets-morals/ "Not only are there some things money can’t buy, but there are also many things money shouldn’t buy"

freakonometrics, 1 year ago to random French

"they also pointed out that the popularization of their idea as a “syndrome” had distorted it. Every time Imes hears the phrase “impostor syndrome,” she told me, it lodges in her gut. It’s technically incorrect, and conceptually misleading. As Clance explained, the phenomenon is “an experience rather than a pathology,” and their aim was always to normalize this experience rather than to pathologize it." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/13/the-dubious-rise-of-impostor-syndrome

freakonometrics, 1 year ago to random French

@tomgauld

freakonometrics, 1 year ago to random French

"Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe" https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216573120

freakonometrics, 1 year ago to random French

😍 "Lord of the Rings by Wes Anderson Trailer" https://youtu.be/KrjL_TSOFrI (#fake unfortunately "This delightful fan-made trailer offers a fresh and whimsical take on the classic Lord of the Rings saga, blending Anderson's signature visual style with J.R.R. Tolkien's epic narrative")

freakonometrics, 1 year ago to random French

"Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common. But new tools show promise in tackling growing symptom of academia’s “publish or perish” culture" https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common "after screening some 5000 papers, he estimates up to 34% of neuroscience papers published in 2020 were likely made up or plagiarized; in medicine, the figure was 24%. Both numbers, which he and colleagues report in a (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.06.23289563v1) preprint posted on 8 May"

freakonometrics, 1 year ago to random French

"Sellers’ Inflation, Profits and Conflict" https://scholarworks.umass.edu/econ_workingpaper/343/ "we argue that the US COVID-19 inflation is predominantly a sellers’ inflation that derives from microeconomic origins, namely the ability of firms with market power to hike prices. Such firms are price makers, but they only engage in price hikes if they expect their competitors to do the same. This requires an implicit agreement which can be coordinated by sector-wide cost shocks and supply bottlenecks"

freakonometrics, 1 year ago to random French

"This isn’t wage-price inflation, it’s greedflation – and big companies are to blame" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/19/wage-price-inflation-greedflation-pay-cost-of-living

freakonometrics, 1 year ago to random French

"Consumers are concerned about rising packaging levels. Dealing with outsized delivery boxes is frustrating. Discarding dirty food containers is inconvenient. Deciphering recycling symbols can be bewildering" https://www.fern.org/publications-insight/unwrapping-a-disaster-2659/ "Today we release case studies from Sweden, Finland, Portugal, Chile and Indonesia which unveil the environmental and human cost of switching to paper-based packaging"

freakonometrics, 1 year ago to random French

Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2021/05/24

freakonometrics, 1 year ago to random French

"So, I would like to propose another metaphor for the risks of artificial intelligence. I suggest that we think about A.I. as a management-consulting firm, along the lines of McKinsey & Company" https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey "Even in its current rudimentary form, A.I. has become a way for a company to evade responsibility by saying that it’s just doing what “the algorithm” says, even though it was the company that commissioned the algorithm in the first place."

freakonometrics, 1 year ago to random French

« Le recours à ce procédé hautement intrusif est devenu monnaie courante, et ce même dans les cas où l’infraction poursuivie ne peut être établie par le contenu d’un téléphone (...) Cette infraction sert autant à condamner des militants qu’à nourrir des fichiers de police ». Les contacts contenus dans les téléphones pourraient ainsi servir à tracer des arborescences d’un milieu militant (le graphe social), toujours intéressantes pour le renseignement https://www.laquadrature.net/2023/04/28/en-gav-tes-fiche%c2%b7e/

freakonometrics, 1 year ago to random French

"Évaluer les effets de l’impôt sur la fortune et de sa suppression sur le tissu productif" https://www.ipp.eu/publication/octobre-2021-evaluer-les-effets-impot-sur-la-fortune-et-de-sa-suppression-sur-le-tissu-productif-isf-ifi/ « La France est un paradis fiscal pour les milliardaires. » https://www.nouvelobs.com/economie/20230428.OBS72718/la-france-paradis-fiscal-des-milliardaires.html

freakonometrics, 1 year ago to random French

La même journée, dans Le Figaro (repéré par https://www.arretsurimages.net/chroniques/les-enerve-es/le-figaro-le-fisc-et-les-fraudes-sociales)

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freakonometrics, 1 year ago to random French

"The concept is called induced demand, which is economist-speak for when increasing the supply of something (like roads) makes people want that thing even more. Though some traffic engineers made note of this phenomenon at least as early as the 1960s, it is only in recent years that social scientists have collected enough data to show how this happens pretty much every time we build new roads." https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/