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Assorted links
1. Michael Pollan or Michel Foucault? -- a new blog.
2. The swine flu rate of hospitalization: about 2 percent. The crisis isn't over.
3. Via Arnold Kling, an excellent economics blog by Matthew Rognlie, a twenty-year-old. Here is Matt's vita, hire him. His blog is much better than what most professors could do plus he has an 800 trifecta on his SATs.
4. Videos of the world's top scholars.
5. Peak car?
6. From Julian Sanchez, a proposal for Hansonian journalism.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on June 6, 2009 at 01:03 PM in Web/Tech | Permalink
Comments
Tyler said:
Here is Matt's vita, hire him.
If Rognlie is such a good economist, shouldn't he be demanding such a high salary that most of your readers wouldn't want to hire him?
Posted by: Bob Murphy at Jun 6, 2009 3:38:34 PM
He put his LSAT score on there...that's a terrible signal.
Posted by: Vernunft at Jun 6, 2009 4:47:15 PM
Oh no he got an A-!
Posted by: Matt at Jun 6, 2009 5:02:32 PM
How come he has never had a real job?
Posted by: Question at Jun 6, 2009 5:31:52 PM
Because he's twenty?
Posted by: Garth Wood at Jun 6, 2009 6:30:17 PM
Be careful on how sustainable sustainability is. Transit requires substantial subsidies, so does upgrading utilites for higher densities. Multistory development requires more resources than single level development. I think there is a real possibility of change but I would not count on that being sustainable.
Posted by: Against the grain at Jun 6, 2009 6:53:15 PM
SAT and LSAT on resume, nice. A recruiter for an engineering company once told me a story of how one applicant put his SAT scores on his resume. He was laughed out of consideration.
Posted by: Patrick OConnor at Jun 6, 2009 6:57:36 PM
The report of a 2% hospitalization rate is very misleading.
The upper bound on hospitalization using Effect Measure's 'recollection' estimates is about 2%, because as they note, their denominator of "14,000 confirmed or probable cases of swine flu" ... "may represent only a fraction of the total number of infected".
A couple weeks ago, the CDC reported ~200 hospitalizations and estimated around 100,000 infections in the U.S:
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE54H3QO20090518?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=22&sp=true
That's 0.2%. And that could still be an overestimate because the number of mild cases never seeking treatment remains the big unknown.
Posted by: Gordon Mohr at Jun 6, 2009 7:17:35 PM
I just read three of his posts and was slapped in the face by his politics. Disappointing.
Posted by: Jon at Jun 6, 2009 9:38:49 PM
I'm laughing at you for intelligence.
He's twenty. What did you get? Oh wait, it's quite common to use that as intelligence indicators ...
He's not twenty-seven apply for engineering job, dimwit.
Posted by: to Oconnor at Jun 6, 2009 11:03:24 PM
Nothing starts a flame war like standardized tests.
Seriously, why do people get all hot and bothered? Some industries look at them (investment banks, consulting firms), others don't. By the time you're 24, they probably don't matter anymore. Why do you care if a college kid puts them on his resume? They're a rough, standardized indicator of analytical ability. That's it.
Posted by: Dan at Jun 6, 2009 11:40:10 PM
Didn't you ask what use RSS readers are awhile back, Tyler? Following people like Rognlie who post once per month is the ideal use case for feeds. Otherwise, you waste a great deal of time rechecking their websites. Or are you confident that anything worthy of your attention will reach it through other paths?
Posted by: Justin at Jun 6, 2009 11:48:40 PM
"we’re moving into a more sustainable way of living, which involves fewer cars and higher urban density"
There really needs to be an emoticon for eye-rolling (or is there one and I just don't know about it?)
It is hard to see that as anything but leftish wishful thinking. There is really no evidence that we're moving into a high-density, urban way of living. I might -- with just as much plausibility -- declare that we're moving into sustainable, low-density way of living based on increasing rates of telecommuting. That, at least, is consistent with American tastes for both housing and work (I know a number of people who telecommute full or part time, and I've yet to hear on express a desire to go back to commuting five days or to spend more time in a cubicle). I've also yet to hear any friends, relatives, or neighbors express a desire to move their families back into a condo or apartment in the city and raise their children there.
And then, of course, we have to keep in mind that the Obama administration now has a very powerful political and economic incentive to encourage the continuation of an auto-oriented lifestyle--namely, tens of billions 'invested' in GM and Chrysler and a strong motivation for this all not to look like a disastrous mistake by 2012.
And then, of course, Europe, even with gas prices far higher than those in the U.S., has a strong auto-oriented culture (don't believe it? Think how important the auto industry is in Europe and try driving the autoroutes around Paris). Even there, the trends in recent decades have been toward greater auto ownership and lower density.
Posted by: Slocum at Jun 7, 2009 2:58:48 PM
A recruiter for an engineering company once told me a story of how one applicant put his SAT scores on his resume. He was laughed out of consideration.
A lot of entry-level positions ask that you put your SAT score on your resume -- maybe not in engineering but in finance for sure. So rather than create two resumes, one with SAT score and one without, it makes more sense to just always put it on the resume.
Posted by: Ricardo at Jun 7, 2009 10:01:34 PM
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Posted by: Tiffany & co at Jun 8, 2009 1:40:35 AM
Man, the 2nd post by Rognlie claimed that the arguments against abortion and torture were obviously similar because they only contain a bald faced assertion of simple moral truth. ??!! Can we get better recommendations please?
Posted by: mpowell at Jun 8, 2009 6:24:40 AM
SAT test results correlate highly with IQ test results - the SAT is basically an IQ test. Tyler, I thought that your position was that IQ wasn't meaningful, e.g. when talking about group level differences. So why are you trumpeting it here as a measure of the potential of bright young Matthew Rognlie?
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