In the future, everyone will be CEO for 15 minutes
You know about some of the perverse things that happen in life – people are forced to wear seatbelts, so they feel safer, so they drive faster, which results in more accidents. People get immunized for diseases, so they feel safer, and hang out with sick people more, and contract other illnesses. People have low-deductible health insurance, so they go to the doctor more for minor issues, get lots of expensive tests, and increase the overall money spent on health care.
Wow, what an interesting result. Windex is next to Godliness
I will have to try this with my kids.
BTW, if you’re not reading Overcoming Bias, you are depriving yourself of an unbelievable amount of good information on a wide range of topics.
This has apparently been sitting in my ‘draft’ queue for several months now. No time like the present!
This is making the rounds of late.
My economist nose sniffs a bit of correlation-not-causation here.
1. Did they control for single-vs-married? Single women have natural incentives to be thinner than married women. Married women living in an apartment would seem to be more likely to be looking to trade up for a better mate.
2. Did they control for # of children? It is, alas, a fact that, statistically, the fewer kids one has, the happier one is. (hard to believe, given how much I enjoy my kids, but I am not entitled to my own facts)
3. They also mentioned that homeowners spend more time on household chores, etc. I believe it – my chore duty dropped precipitously once I started renting an apartment. Plus, I can afford to live closer in, so my trips to the store take lest time and my commute is shorter.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » Globally Managing American Speech?.
This whole process of “engagement” on an issue like free speech by the US at the HRC or anywhere else in the international system is a mistake from the beginning. Among the many reasons is, first, that a process like that of the HRC is designed to lead to consensus, which in practice will mean some kind of compromise. But the whole point of freedom of speech under the First Amendment is that it is not open to compromise, and certainly not in the sense of elaborating standards from the outside for a sovereign people who govern themselves under a constitution.
Come now! Compared to the rest of the world, we are outliers on free speech standards. It is far past time for us to restrict our freedoms and join the international community!
all hail the lowest common denominator!
I have a young daughter, so I am quite puzzled about all the fuss over Polanski. Because if it were my daughter that Polanski had raped, there would be no issue 32 years later with extradition and ‘he should be forgiven’, since he would have been dead for the last 30 years at least.
The Gormogons: Letterman Made the Smart Call.
Especially given the timing of the Polanski thing, this would be brilliant. But I’m pretty sure that he had decided to go public well before the Zurich incident.