PhD students in Marketing, Psychology, and Economics should send their “packets” out by the fourth of July in the hopes of lining up interviews at the annual AMA Summer Conference. Each year DSN reprints this sort of “what to expect while you’re applying” guide, first published here by Dan Goldstein in 2005.
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What if people could only publish five papers before tenure? Some people hate this idea, but it might help with some problems.
The Wall Street Journal gets the definition of percentile backwards.
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EXPERTS SAID OBAMA WOULDN’T BE ELECTED PRESIDENT AND $3 GAS IS HERE TO STAY From this article: Paying less than $3.00 per gallon for gasoline may be automotive history for most Americans, like using 8-track tapes or going to a drive-in movie,” said Bob Darbelnet, President and CEO of AAA. “The reality is that expensive […]
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Why is restaurant cutlery sometimes magnetic?
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In 2010, we proposed a counterfactual GPS. Today, XKCD had the same idea.
Google has launched the uncrowdedr feature we’ve long been longing for.
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How much damage did Carrie Underwood do to that guy’s car in that song?
Statistician Andrew Gelman had a sense that something was up with dubious Science article soon after it was published.
