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I debated how to present the CS data, because there are a few things going on there. Here are the raw counts: http://images.techhive.com/images/idge/imported/article/ctw/... The tw…

I was referring to M.D.'s.

All jobs require some dealing with people and some dealing with things. Does that imply no difference between the fractions of the day that software engineers and social workers sp…

This is a good point worth keeping in mind. We're talking about a statistical property of groups of people, and one that is relatively uncommon in both groups.

The interesting thing about medicine and law is that they are professions that deal with human needs and social relationships. As formal barriers were removed, the percentage of la…

Are you suggesting that Dennett is a continental philosopher?

I am cringing. Gould was a classic case of projection, having been guilty of everything he accused his opponents of: misreading one's opponents, proneness to ideological bias, and …

RNA is highly unstable.

The essay you link ultimately endorses the economics Nobel.

What is your preferred explanation? That a doctor suspected ebola but, because Duncan was an African without insurance, thought it better that he walk around for four more days?

Girlfriend's family is from Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium. Her sister speaks fluent English despite very modest formal language training. (On the order of the n Th…

Why do you think we observe the positive manifold, then?

This pair of rhetorical questions actually has a non-rhetorical answer, and it is far more interesting (though less precious) than the one implied here. This being the internet, th…

Yes, maxing out one dimension of performance may degrade it in another. This is just Berkson, again. My point is that along the entire range of variation, all reasonable measures o…

Two points about this. First, a consensus developed over more than a hundred years of study requires a little more than an off-handed dismissal-- do you understand _why_ a general …

I can't speak for the GCTA method, but the five main findings discussed in the review have all been known within the field for years: this is a review, rather than a research artic…

Let a thousand flowers wilt! Consider this statement from the lead author: "As economies develop, one language often comes to dominate a nation’s political and educational spheres.…

http://crookedtimber.org/2007/05/10/in-praise-of-budweiser-c...

I don't understand how this constitutes an explanation: "Why don't restauranteurs maximize their profits? They're leaving money on the table," said Alice. "They don't maximize thei…

Monogamy should decrease sibling-sibling genetic conflict, relative to polygamy, since you can expect to be more closely related to your siblings on average. Even in ideally monoga…

Monogamy should decrease sibling-sibling genetic conflict, relative to polygamy, since you can expect to be more closely realted to your siblings on average. Even in ideally monoga…

Paleolithic culture is a genuinely mixed bag. Not as bad as almost everyone thinks, but worse than the rest think. I would put 1850 as my over-under for the year that neolithic cul…

I remember reading that and reeling, shocked that anyone could write and sign their name to that. Whenever I am pessimistic about my chances in science, I remember that that guy ha…

The Markov property does not require dependence on the previous state-- it requires that the distribution of the next state given the history of the chain be the distribution of th…