I think the joke goes something like “If you laid all the economists in the world end to end, they still wouldn’t reach a conclusion.” This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, mind you, but on a lot of issues it’s almost certainly true. At least now we can observe what happens when all [...]
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Apparently This Is What Happens When You Lay Economists End To End…
February 2nd, 2012 · 4 Comments
Fun With Data · Policy · Random Links
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Graphic Content: Correlation Or Coincidence?
December 17th, 2011 · 3 Comments
Fun With Data · Graphic Content
A number of people have sent me this, so in case you haven’t seen the latest in the treasure trove of funny correlation does not imply causation graphs, here it is. From Businessweek:
(Click to see the full-size graphic on the original site, of course.) Most of these examples are absurd enough that people [...]
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Econgirl’s First TED Talk…
October 13th, 2011 · 2 Comments
Fun With Data · Videos
…also known as econgirl’s “adventure in learning that Canada is more than just Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver.” You may recall this from an earlier post:
Anyway, the talk is finally available on the TEDxTalks YouTube channel, and you can see it here:
I think the video came out decently well, especially considering the challenges of the [...]
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Economists’ Never-Ending Quest For Efficiency, Philanthropy Edition…
August 23rd, 2011 · 2 Comments
Books · Economic Growth · Fun With Data · Policy
Last weekend, I went to Cape Breton to give a talk at a TEDx event. In case you don’t know, Cape Breton is wayyyy on the eastern part of Nova Scotia, and isn’t particularly flush with convenient flights into the area. So my weekend looked something like this:
This observation is actually kind of [...]
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On Correlation Vs. Causation, Or Why Friends Don’t Let Friends Become Illinois Politicians…
June 29th, 2011 · 7 Comments
Fun With Data · Just For Fun
If you haven’t already, you can read my correlation does not imply causation, uh, rant here. The general idea is that, just because you see that events A and B go together, you cannot conclude that event A causes event B. You can only conclude this if you rule out two other possibilities, [...]
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