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2. Satire of a Tyler Cowen book review, via Bamber
3. Japanese barcodes, via David Zetland
4. Leonhard Euler, via www.geekpress.com
Posted by Tyler Cowen on April 5, 2008 at 01:09 AM in Web/Tech | Permalink
Comments
Parody only works if it's plain what you are parodying. Not so in this case.
Posted by: Russ Nelson at Apr 5, 2008 8:54:24 AM
I agree. I wrote it specifically for Amber and don't expect anyone else who hasn't read the underlying book to appreciate it.
Although everyone should enjoy a reminder of Tyler's amusingly absurd movie reviews striking a blow against the cultural consensus.
Posted by: Dylan at Apr 5, 2008 10:50:15 AM
Desmond Morris wrote a book about soccer as a sublimation of hunting.
El Salvador and Honduras went to war using a soccer game as (lame) excuse.
UK finished the violence in their stadiums , not in the european , discriminating against low income people
Posted by: karl at Apr 5, 2008 12:12:28 PM
Players from Argentina , Uruguay, Venezuela and Italy are rougher than colombians. Brazilian defenders were below average players until recently so they got to many yellow card for lack of abilities.
Posted by: karl at Apr 5, 2008 12:22:30 PM
The accompanying graph for the soccer paper that Dani Rodrik posts looks like it's straight out of a statistics book example about bad correlations and outliers. Almost everything bunched up on the left, two outliers, and then everything else in the middle below the trend line? According to the paper, the results only 90% significant when one outlier is removed (which Rodrik then calls robust)?
Ugh.
Posted by: John Thacker at Apr 5, 2008 12:58:23 PM
We parody because we love?
Posted by: Amber at Apr 5, 2008 1:01:36 PM
Wasn't a fan of your Cloverfield review, huh?
Posted by: at Apr 5, 2008 2:57:04 PM
John Thacker:
Thanks for saying what I came to say. That Rodrik called the results "robust" leads me to seriously question his credibility.
I gave a short talk on bad modeling practices at work this week; if I had seen this paper I would have used it as an excellent example of such.
Posted by: bartman at Apr 5, 2008 3:00:52 PM
"Parody only works if it's plain what you are parodying. Not so in this case."
I don't know, it seemd pretty clear in this case that it was a parody of the Cloverfield review (he even gave a link to that post).
Posted by: Jacob at Apr 5, 2008 3:54:33 PM
Tyler's movie reviews are weird. But he was right about The Devil Wears Prada being Nietzschean.
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