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2. Search theory, Canadian style.
3. Stimulus for bloggers; there are many good reasons for doing this.
4. Does Godzilla motivate terrorists?
5. Is New Orleans finally recovering?
Posted by Tyler Cowen on February 4, 2009 at 03:43 PM | Permalink
Comments
New Orleans may be "recovering", but is that a good thing?
Its still several feet below sea level and in harm's way.
Posted by: Superheater at Feb 4, 2009 3:23:18 PM
Yes! GIVE ME MONEY!
Posted by: Robert Olson at Feb 4, 2009 4:11:27 PM
Professor retakes GRE and scores in 99th percentile. Sounds like the GRE is pretty valid.
Posted by: Steve Sailer at Feb 4, 2009 4:16:18 PM
I don't know about subject specific tests, but it seems like the general GRE is just flawed. The idea of computer adaptive testing can leads to many biases as trying to measure a persons ability in quantitative reasoning.
Posted by: Brian at Feb 4, 2009 6:33:11 PM
An English professor who maybe needs to take a statistics course: the individual questions may feel arbitrary, but in the aggregate the test is still significant. Evidence: 99th percentile. ding-a-ling.
Posted by: Fred at Feb 4, 2009 6:54:01 PM
Good article on the professor and the GRE.
Posted by: Steve at Feb 4, 2009 9:42:53 PM
Did you guys read the "professor does the GRE" article carefully?
He did well on it, only to dismiss it as completely irrelevant. Sort of like Picasso deciding one day to dash off a realistic portrait from his early period just to prove he still can, even though he does nothing but groovy cubistic stuff anymore.
This professor complains that the test is flawed because it contains hardly any "literary theory" questions. He makes it clear he would want more.
I confess I would have a hard time distinguishing the example "parody" question from the "real thing". This is "what color is the sky on your planet?" stuff. I hate to dismiss any field of intellectual endeavor as entirely without value, but... let's go there. Some people in ivory towers have their heads stuck so far up their ass that they're gazing at their navels from the inside.
Posted by: at Feb 4, 2009 11:13:46 PM
In my experience taking the GRE (3 tests), I always scored higher on the practice test than on the real one. Maybe it's the benefit of doing it at home on your own time rather than waking up at 7 AM to go somewhere else in a more stressful environment. So I don't really count his attempt as valid.
Posted by: Andy at Feb 5, 2009 9:04:02 AM
Are there still huge amounts of federal dollars going to New Orleans' recovery? If so, isn't #5 the textbook definition of the Broken Window Fallacy?
What am I missing here?
Posted by: d.cous. at Feb 5, 2009 11:10:06 AM
The answer to question concerning which of the listed war novelists had never seen prior combat: Stephen Crane.
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Posted by: Shoaib at Feb 6, 2009 6:46:53 AM
