There was an interesting article the other day on nytimes.com titled “Getting the Most out of Twitter” which essentially argues that lurking (i.e., reading others’ posts and not posting yourself) is the way to go:
Even the most prolific users say Twitter has become more useful as a way to tap in to the discussions of [...]
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supplemental statistics
I came across a really interesting paper recently after seeing it referred to in a news story: Female teachers’ math anxiety affects girls’ math achievement (Beilock et al., 2010, PNAS, with Supplemental information)
The researchers recruited 17 first- and second-grade teachers (all female) and assessed the math achievement of the students in their classrooms at the [...]
large datasets and threats to validity
I just read “Limits of Predictability in Human Mobility” by Chaoming Song, et al. (Science, Vol. 327, 2010). The paper reports an analysis of a really amazing dataset: three months of cell phone records for ~10 million customers of a large European carrier (“anonymized by the data source”). These records include information about the cell [...]
google buzz
I am dismayed by the way Google has rolled out Buzz, and I am not alone. Many bloggers and news organizations have raised issues with Google’s misguided assumption that email contacts form the same kind of social network as users of Facebook and Twitter (etc.) have built up over time. For example, a NY Times [...]
time for self
from the NY Times a couple days ago: “Taking Time for the Self on the Path to Becoming a Doctor“. good advice that applies even if you’re training to be the non-medical kind:
“It’s partly a coping mechanism,” Dr. Ratanawongsa said. “We tell ourselves that we can do everything but not at the same time, so [...]
