Steven Levitt questions (quite convincingly, despite the small sample size and possible selection issues) the main “predictions” associated with the direction people see this ballerina spin. Levitt (who also sees the dancer turn only clockwise, as I do) shows that probably all associations in the article were reversed and the left column should have been the right column (next to that, it also appears that it isn’t even true that most people see the dancer turn anti-clockwise)… I thought so, since I deemed most of them speculations, to start with.
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Econlinks for 21 Oct ’07
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Preston McAfee brings a second noteworthy innovation to Economic Inquiry (I also blogged about the first one since he came as editor to that journal): “We now have a miscellany section.
And the Econ winners for 2007 are…
…. Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson, for “having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory“. See more about this on nobelprize.org. Totally deserved, albeit they were not among the ones with the highest odds this year (so don’t bet next time…).
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Try a free “publish or perish” software. Though it does pretty much the same (and only that, as far as I had time to test…) as scholar.google.com
Quote for week 9th – 15th of September ’07
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.
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