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Blog: NotGraphs Baseball: Old News: Dopamine and Baseball
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Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: Oh God, So Funny It Hurts
Blog: Wired Science: Q&A: Why It’s Sometimes Rational to Be Irrational
Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: Is it more effective to punish the bad or reward the good?
‘Moneyball’ Godfather Bill James Tackles Politics In Super PAC Age
‘Moneyball’ Godfather Bill James Tackles Politics In Super PAC Age
Moneyball analogies in politics
‘Moneyball’ Godfather Bill James Tackles Politics In Super PAC Age
‘Moneyball’ Godfather Bill James Tackles Politics In Super PAC Age
Moneyball analogies in politics
Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: Is Apple a company or a religion?
3 reasons young Americans are giving up on God – The Week
Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: When an expert speaks does your ability to think for yourself literally shut down?
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Blog: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: A Ticket For Good Behavior
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Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: What are the two most common tricks advertisers use to manipulate you?
Blog: kottke.org: 10 year game of Civilization II turns into Eternal War
Research Shows That the Smarter People Are, the More Susceptible They Are to Cognitive Bias : The New Yorker
Research Shows That the Smarter People Are, the More Susceptible They Are to Cognitive Bias : The New Yorker
‘For one thing, self-awareness was not particularly useful: as the scientists note, “people who were aware of their own biases were not better able to overcome them.”’
Baseball Prospectus | Manufactured Runs: The Madness of King Bill
Baseball Prospectus | Manufactured Runs: The Madness of King Bill
“If you aren’t explicit in deciding that what you’re looking at is relative, that doesn’t mean you’ll be answering things in absolute terms, it means you’ll be answering things relative to a baseline that you haven’t decided on with a clear rationale, and probably without awareness of how that baseline is affecting your analysis.”