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Caught my eye
1. Loss of natural teeth by state. Hey Pete, can you guess which state takes first place? Connecticut is on the other end of the spectrum.
2. Unplanned attempts to quit smoking may work best.
3. The Monkey Chow Diaries: "Let them eat cake" was most definitely the wrong idea.
4. Jane Galt on Superman. So far carbon sequestration is the best idea.
5. How to tell a woman's real age.
6. Here is an excellent essay on Indian reforms and why the outsourcing boom started.
7. Check out this updated link for Why Men Can't Dance; many other hypotheses are there as well. Try Why I Don't Care That Your Mother is Dead, for one, or how about Why Bond Villains Employ Dwarves?
Posted by Tyler Cowen on June 7, 2006 at 02:29 PM in Web/Tech | Permalink
Comments
Is Maine the first blue state on this list at #15? Whats actually funny is the percentage - 42%!
Posted by: mickslam at Jun 7, 2006 3:11:23 PM
I stopped reading the reason essay right after "...But India’s technical talent pool has been available for about half a century. Why did the world discover it only in the last 15 years? ..."
Exponential growth in technology made it cost-effective starting 15 years ago? Globally colloborative, distributed work, has only been effective for the past decade or so.
Posted by: Jor at Jun 7, 2006 3:15:16 PM
The Bond Villain-dwarf thing would be great if it were intended as a parody of evolutionary psychology. As an explanation, not so much.
A better question would be why they prefer sharks with lasers on their heads to simple, more efficient methods of killing. And a better answer is signalling, which can explain the dwarfs, the sharks with lasers on their heads, the large yachts, and the Dom Perignon '55.
Posted by: DK at Jun 7, 2006 3:32:35 PM
I don't disagree with Dalmia's points overall about regulation, taxes, and the like, but as 'analyst' his work is faulty in the extreme. "Regulatory Shackles" and "Destructive Taxes" in Detroit weren't any worse than in other large rust belt cities that are thriving today.
(and ny discussion of the city that excludes reference to the metro area as a whole is deficient.)
An essay about what happened to Detroit that does not have the words "race", "black" or "white" in it is woefully deficient.
Posted by: Jos Bleau at Jun 7, 2006 5:08:03 PM
In the top 25 states in the teeth loss statistic, only two were blue in last year's presidential election: Maine and Pennsylvania.
Yikes!
Posted by: Jake at Jun 7, 2006 5:18:12 PM
Anyone want to hazard a guess as to why Utah is close to the best in teeth retention, but has the least penetration of fluoridation into the water supply? Links here!
Posted by: David Tufte at Jun 7, 2006 5:50:24 PM
Are LDS members particularly diligent at dental hygiene?
Posted by: Klug at Jun 7, 2006 9:08:17 PM
Does anyone else think that the writer of the 'why men won't dance' site is missing an essay titled "Why I am so Great"?
Posted by: Klug at Jun 7, 2006 9:14:07 PM
Klug - interesting that you get so defensive when reading the article of a superior dancer.
;)
Posted by: TimmyG at Jun 7, 2006 9:52:15 PM
If you look at it, the teeth loss chart is for people 65+ who have lost of their natural teeth. So, rather than fluoride in the water, I'd look for correlations between things like income over the lifetime, particularly in childhood and rural/urban mix, particularly dentist concentration.
Posted by: Tom at Jun 7, 2006 11:43:41 PM
RE Indian outsourcing. While they have become more educated, it seems as if the US labor force has become less educated!
Posted by: muckdog at Jun 8, 2006 12:48:46 AM
Mr. Tufte - does anyone have any data about tooth-brushing behavior for folks like these? That might go a long way to explaining things on its own - without invoking a slew of other variables.
Posted by: Robert Nanders at Jun 8, 2006 1:40:12 AM
The evolutionary psychology stuff is interesting to read but I am very sceptical of it in general. If
our genes influence our behaviour so much why didn't we evolve a tendency to wash our hands? Or to bathe?
I imagine people with genes for hygeine would have a clear advantage over everyone else, even if they
couldn't dance.
Posted by: Ronald Brak at Jun 8, 2006 3:54:09 AM
I just realised I made a boo-boo when I suggested genese don't influence our behaviour so much. Of course
genes influence our behavour, there is plenty of evidence for that. I just think they are likely to be
responsible for general drives and tendencies and not much responsible for details.
Posted by: Ronald Brak at Jun 8, 2006 4:01:07 AM
Duh! on the hands and don't forget the neck.
Knees and elbows can, too.
Posted by: Sandy P. at Jun 8, 2006 11:02:22 AM
It surprises me that Arizona falls so far down the list, unless the inhabitants of metropolitan Phoenix have better oral health and outnumber all the rural Arizonans with caved-in mouths I encounter on a daily basis.
Posted by: Mark Plus at Jun 8, 2006 11:12:59 PM
I've thought lately about the idea of "human chow," and I've read that Amerindians in the far north came up with something approximating that when they invented pemmican, a slow-to-spoil mixture of dried meat, rendered fat and berries. Humans can reportedly subsist off of pemmican for months at a time. The wild berries added to it supply enough ascorbic acid to prevent scurvy.
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