Random links
- What the Ferguson witnesses say they saw
- An interesting reminder of how eyewitness testimony can often be unreliable and inconsistent. And now you have the prosecutor there saying "Early on, I decided that anyone who claimed to have witnessed anything would be presented to the grand jury ... I thought it was important to present anybody and everybody, and some that were, yes, clearly not telling the truth, no question about it."
- Take Two Sugar Pills and Call Me in the Morning
- Placebo effects are weirder than I expected: "Over the past decade, a number of clinical studies have begun to show that people who improve on placebos are genetically different than those who don’t. And although the American Medical Association has long considered it unethical for doctors to give placebos without informing their patients ... several clinical trials have now shown that placebos do not require deception to be effective."
- The Karl Marx MasterCard Is Here. It Needs A Tagline.
- I was amused.
- Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women
- "We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. ... Girls exposed to the garment sector delay marriage and childbirth. ...The demand for education generated through manufacturing growth appears to have a much larger effect on female educational attainment compared to a large-scale government conditional cash transfer program to encourage female schooling."