Posts with Comments by Andy
On discovering you’re an android
Mad Mice
Who argues the most from authority?
(And that's certainly what the title "Nobel laureate" is doing -- it's not some neutral mention of there being a Nobel Prize. It's dignifying a particular person with the honorific "Nobel laureate.")
So taking the # of hits with "nobel laureate" and the field / (# of winners in field * # of hits for the field overall), we get the following authority-arguing propensities (would make a great German word):
Medicine: 8.9 E-6
Chemistry: 1.6 E-5
Physics: 2.0 E-5
Economics: 5.6 E-5
Point remains: the insecure social sciences are much more inclined to argue from authority than the harder sciences.
Black Beauty
I think if all women looked just like Laetitia Casta, the world would be a better place. Except for my wife, because she's beautiful just the way she is,... so now I'm off that hook.
Blondes do have more fun
To comment on Steve's point about how the "blonder" nations of Europe scored higher on academic tests than "darker" European nations. Could these higher scores be due to the fact that many of these tests, which were composed by white, western Europeans, pose a cultural bias. This may be comparable to asking both Canadian and American students to write identical tests on Canadian history. Gee...I wonder if the Canadian students would score better?...Just a suggestion.
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