Note: pdfs no longer available... but the links should still work.
... Hydroxychloroquine: Snake oil ... or Salvation?
Henry Ford Health System, July 2, 2020: Treatment with Hydroxychloroquine Cut Death Rate Significantly in COVID-19 Patients, Henry Ford Health System Study Shows
The Henry Ford Health System: The Study
The Henry Ford Health System, Aug 3, 2020: Hydroxychloroquine: An Open Letter to Our Community and Beyond
Kristen Jordan Shamus, The Detroit News, August 13, 2020: FDA denies Henry Ford Health request to use hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 patients
Beth LeBlanc, The Detroit News, August 3, 2020: Henry Ford defends hydroxychloroquine study, 'saddened' by drug's politicization
Beth LeBlanc, The Detroit News, July 31, 2020: Fauci: Henry Ford Health's hydroxychloroquine study 'flawed'
Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, Friday July 31, 2020: Researchers publish scathing critique of a hydroxychloroquine study touted by the White House
Yella Hewings-Martin, MedicalNewsToday, July 10, 2020: Does hydroxychloroquine cut COVID-19 mortality? Expert urges caution
Matthew Herper, StatNews, July 8, 2020: A flawed Covid-19 study gets the White House’s attention — and the FDA may pay the price
... Ofqual Scores are Awful Scores
Wikipedia: The Ofqual Exam Results Algorithm ofqual.uk website
The Ofqual Interim Report, Ofqual, Summer 2020: Awarding GCSE, AS, A level, advanced extension awards and extended project qualifications in summer 2020 and Appendix G
Alex Hern, TheGuardian, Aug 21, 2020: Ofqual's A-level algorithm: Why did it fail to make the grade?
Sam Shead, CNBC, Aug 21, 2020: How a computer algorithm caused a grading crisis in British schools
Megan Specia, The New York Times, Aug. 14, 2020: Parents, Students and Teachers Give Britain a Failing Grade Over Exam Results
Sean Coughlan, Katherine Sellgren, Judith Burns, BBC News, Aug 13 2020: A-levels: Anger over 'unfair' results this year
Donna Ferguson, TheGuardian, Aug 8, 2020: UK schools fear backlash from parents over 'unfair' A-level exam results
... CARES Impact on Job Search
[Altonji et al 2020] Employment Effects of Unemployment Insurance Generosity Druing the Pandemic link ... pdf
Catherine Clifford, CNBC, Jul 31, 2020: $600 unemployment booster isn’t primary reason people do or do not work: Yale economists
Quentin Fottrell, MarketWatch, Aug 4, 2020: Did the extra $600 unemployment benefit stop people from job hunting?
... H1-B Visas and OffShoring
Britta Glennon, NBER, July 2020: The H1-B Visa Program and Offshoring ... pdf
Scott Lincicome, Cato Institute, July 20, 2020: We’ll Do Anything for American Innovation, But We Won’t Do That
Stuart Anderson, Forbes, Oct 2, 2019: Restrictions On H-1B Visas Found To Push Jobs Out Of The U.S.
Knowledge@Wharton, podcast, Sept. 23, 2019: How Restricting Skilled Immigration Could Spur Offshoring
... Risk Assessment Algos
The New York Time, 2/6/2020: An Algorithm That Grants Freedom, or Takes It Away
The New York Time, 1/2/2018: Can an Algorithm Tell When Kids Are in Danger?
The New York Time, 5/1/2017: Sent to Prison by a Software Program’s Secret Algorithms
The New York Time, 6/23/2016: In Wisconsin, a Backlash Against Using Data to Foretell Defendants’ Futures
epic.org, Electronic Privacy Information Center: Algorithms in the Criminal Justice System: Pre-Trial Risk Assessment Tools
ProPublica, Investigating the algorithms that control our lives: Machine Bias ... methodology ... recidivism data
Mapping Pretrial Injustice: pretrialrisk.com ... research
United Nation, Human Right, Office of the High Commissioner: World stumbling zombie-like into a digital welfare dystopia
Diana Mindrila and Phoebe Ballantyne, (based on Chapter 4 in David S. Moore, The Best Practice of Statstics, 6th ed.): Scatterplots and Correlation
... Uber Tipping
Chandar et al., October 2019: The Drivers of Social Preferences: NBER ... UChicago working paper ... in brief
In-class Handouts: Summary 5-pager ... Exhibits ... Driver Gender 2-pager
Uber: In-app tipping ...
Uber is hiring! - Data Scientist
The New York Time, 10/2/2018: Should you tip your Uber driver? If so, how much?
Quartz, 12/31/2019: How gender impacts Uber tipping
Slate, 10/23/2019: You Need to Tip Your Uber Driver More Often
Wired, 10/25/2019: Your Secret Uber Tipping Behavior, Exposed
Gender data:
... Social Security Administration (US baby names) homepage ... zipped dta file
... online resources: genderize.io ... gender-api.com ... genderchecker.com
Geohash (level 5 ~3x3 miles)... nested/hierarchical geocoding:
... Movable Type: geohash (BC @ drt2u)
... Geohash Explorer: geohash
Demographics (5 digit zip code level):
Census: advanced search
[Charness and Kuhn 2011] Lab Labor: What Can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab? link ... paper
[Andreoni et al. 2017] Avoiding The Ask: A Field Experiment on Altruism, Empathy, and Charitable Giving link ... paper
... It's Gotta be the Shoes - Update
News Flash 1/15/2020: VaporFlys to be Banned!
The New York Times, 12/13/2019: Nike's Fastest Shoes - Update ... link
The New York Times, 10/12/2019: Breaking the Two-Hour Marathon Barrier link
The New York Times, 3/8/2017: An Unfair Advantage? link
October 2019, Update II... Harvard Admissions and Asian-American Applicants
The New York Times, 10/1/2019: [NYTimes Oct 01 2019] Judge Rules Harvard Does Not Discriminate Against Asian Americans ... link
The Washington Post, 10/1/2019: Federal Judge Rules Harvard Does Not Discriminate Against Asian Americans in Admissions ... link
Students for Fair Admissions, Inc., Plaintiff, v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard Corporation), Defendant. No. 14-cv-14176-ADB (D. Mass)
... Bacon Redux
The New York Times, 9/29/2019:
... That Perplexing Red Meat Controversy: 5 Things to Know ... link
... Eat Less Red Meat, Scientists Said. Now Some Believe That Was Bad Advice: pdf ... link
... ... response from Chan/Harvard School of Public Health: Red Meat Recommendations Contradict Evidence.pdf ... link
Annals of Internal Medicine, 10/1/2019: Some Papers ... that got people excited ...
... Meat Consumption and Health: Food for Thought
... 1. Reduction of Red and Processed Meat Intake and Cancer Mortality and Incidence: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
... 2. Health-Related Values and Preferences Regarding Meat Consumption: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review
... 3. Effect of Lower Versus Higher Red Meat Intake: A Systematic Review of Randomized Trials
... 4. Patterns of Red and Processed Meat Consumption and Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Relatedly...
The New York Times, 11/29/2018: You Don't Want Fries with That ... link
... the original paper: [Veronese et al 2017] Fried Potatoes and Mortality.pdf ... chart ... link
... Every Step You Take
ScienceDaily, 8/21/2019: Physical activity at any intensity linked to lower risk of early death.pdf ... link
... the original paper: [Ekelund et al 2019] Physical Activity and Mortality.pdf ... handout ... link
... linked Editorial: Every step you take
... linked Opinion: Sit less - move more and more often
... Practice Doesn't Always Make Perfect (Violinists and Pianists)
The Guardian, 8/21/2019: Blow to 10,000-hour rule as study finds practice doesn't always make perfect.pdf ... link
Royal Society Open Science Published, 8/21/2019: [Macnamara et al 2019] The Role of Deliberate Practice in Expert Performance.pdf ... link
... Supplementary Material: [Macnamara et al 2019] Supplemental Material.pdf ... link
... the original paper: [Ericsson et al 1993] The Role of Deliberate Practice.pdf ... link
Malcolm Gladwell, 6/24/2009: Outliers: The Story of Success
... Smartphones Make You Stupid
Kyklos, Forthcoming: [Baert et al Forthcoming] Smartphone Use and Academic Performance.pdf ... link
... Commentary by Pedro de Bruyckere, 1/8/2018: Smartphone Use and Academic Performance.pdf ... link
... and Omitted Variable Bias: Endogeneity, Correlation and Causation.pdf
The New York Times, 12/2/2018: Hide Your Phone When You’re Trying to Work.pdf ... link
Center for the Digital Future, 7/27/2017: Smartphones and Drained Brains.pdf ... link
Computers and Education, December 2018: [Kates et al 2018] Mobile Phone Use and Academic Performance.pdf ... link
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 9/27/2018: [Han Yi 2019] College Students Smartphones and Academic Performance.pdf ... link
Addictive Behaviors Reports, 7/19/2017: [Duke and Montag 2017] Smartphone Addiction Interruptions and Productivity.pdf ... link
Journal of Association for Consumer Research, 4/3/2017: [Ward et al 2017] Smartphones and Brain Drain.pdf ... link
Computers and Education, July 2016: [Hawi Samaha 2016] Adverse Effect of Smartphone Addiction on Academic Performance.pdf ... link
Computers in Human Behavior, April 2016: [Samaha and Hawi 2016] Smartphone Addiction Stress and Academic Performance.pdf ... link
Computers in Human Behavior, January 2016: [Chen Yan 2016] Multitasking Mobile Phones and Learning.pdf ... link
Computers in Human Behavior, February 2014: [Lepp et al 2014] Cell Phone Use Anxiety Academic Performance and Satisfaction.pdf ... link
... Immigration and Crime, Update
The New York Times, 5/13/2019: Is There a Connection Between Undocumented Immigrants and Crime? (pdf) ... link
Pew Foundation, 7/12/2019: Measuring Illegal Immigration
... 11/27/2018: Residual Estimation Methodology
... 6/28/2019: What We Know... Illegal Immigration from Mexico
... 6/12/2019: Five Facts About Illegal Immigration in the US
... 6/12/2019: Unauthorized Immigrant Populations - Trends
Governing, 3/2/2017: The Mythical Link Between Immigrants and High Crime Rates ... link
... the analysis: Undocumented Immigrants and Crime ... link
... Immigration and Crime
The New York Times, 3/30/2018: The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant.pdf ... link
The Washington Post, 6/19/2018: Two Charts Demolish the Notion That Immigrants Here Illegally Commit More Crime ... link
Criminology, March 25, 2018: [Light and Miller 2018] Does Undocumented Immigration Increase Violent Crime? ... tables 1 & 2 ... link
Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, 2017: [Adelman et al 2017] Urban Crime Rates and Immigration: Evidence across four decades ... link
Annual Review of Criminology, 2018: [Ousey and Kubrin 2017] Immigration and Crime: Assessing a Contentious Issue ... link
Crime Prevention Research Center, rev'd February 10, 2018: [Lott 2018] Undocumented Immigrants US Citizens and Convicted Criminals in AZ ... Lott's data and .do file ... Nowrasteh's critique ... Lott's response ... Nowrasteh's followup
CATO Institute, February 26, 2018: [Nowrasteh 2018] Criminal Immigrants in Texas ... link
... Other interesting links: ... NYTimes: Illegal Immigration ... Gallup Polls ... Immigration Research and information ... The Pew Foundation ... The Marshall Project
... Pay Equity@Google
The Guardian, 10/26/2018: Google gender pay gap: women advance suit that could affect 8,300 workers ... link
Eileen Naughton, VP, People Operations, Google: Our focus on pay equity ... pdf
re:Work: Pay Equity Guide ... pdf
Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn, January 2016 - The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations: link ... pdf
Matthew Wiswall and Basit Zafar - Preference for the Workplace, Human Capital and Gender: 2016 ... 2017/18 ... pdf
... Buried Under Bodies
Washington Post, 9/13/2018: Even with murder rates falling, big-city detectives face daunting caseloads ... link
... Excel data file (replication attempt): ... xlsx
... Alexa, Take Me To Funkytown
Quartz, 7/21/2018: These are the most danceable number one hits, according to computer science ... link ... Notes ... (annotated) ... echonest Audio Features
... the 2017 study: What Makes Popular Culture Popular? Product Features and Optimal Differentiation in Music, Noah Askin and Michael Mauskapf ... link ... paper
... echonest acoustic footprint data: ... echonest home ... for developers ... audio features ... api ... demos ... documentation ... pyechonest ... python client
... discogs genre/style data: ... home ... submission guidelines ... genres ... styles ... Drake: In My Feelings
What Makes a Hit? 60 Years of #1 Songs
Scientific American 1/16/2018: AI Composed Songs ... FlowComposer (Sony): Daddy's Car and Mr. Shadow ... Taryn Southern: Breaking Free
... Marijuana Legalization and Traffic Accidents/Fatalities
CATO Institute, 8/8/2018: Early evidence on recreational marijuana legalization and traffic fatalities ... link ... paper ... NBER
Washington Post, 6/26/2017: What marijuana legalization did to car accident rates ... link
American Journal of Public Health, August 2017: [Aydelotte et al 2017] Crash fatality rates after recreational marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado.pdf ... link
Highway Loss Data Institute 6/22/2017: Legalizing recreational marijuana is linked to increased crashes.pdf ... report ... link
Health News 12/28/2016: After states legalized medical marijuana, traffic deaths fell ... link
... It's Gotta be the Shoes
New York Times, 7/18/2018: Nike's Vaporflys are Faster by 4% ... link
... Strava: data
June 2018 Update... Harvard Admissions and Asian-American Applicants
The New York Times, 6/15/2018: Harvard rated Asian-American applicants lower on personality traits, suit says ... link
The Washington Post, 6/15/2018: Internal Harvard study suggested Asian Americans would benefit from 'academics-only' admissions
Students for Fair Admissions, Inc., Plaintiff, v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard Corporation), Defendant. No. 14-cv-14176-ADB (D. Mass)
... The Protagonists: ... StudentsForFairAdmissions.org ... Harvard
... Some Spin: ... StudentsForFairAdmissions.org ... Harvard
... Plaintiff's expert's report by Peter S. Arcidiacono ... link
... Plaintiff's expert's rebuttal report by Peter S. Arcidiacono ... link
... Summary Judgment Motion - Memorandi: ... Plaintiff's ... Defendant's
... The Best Border Wall
Quartz, 1/17/2018: The Best border wall is a legal marijuana market ... link
... the 2017 study: Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisations? The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on US Crime, Gavrilova, Kamada and Zoutman ... link ... paper
Dec 2017 Update... DOJ takes on Affirmative Action in College Admissions
The New York Times, 12/1/2017: Harvard Agrees to Turn Over Records ... link
... DOJ takes on Affirmative Action in College Admissions
The New York Times, 8/1/2017: Justice Dept. to take on affirmative action in college admissions ... link
... 8/2/2017: Affirmative action battle has a new focus: Asian-Americans ... link
... the 2009 study: No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and class in elite college admission and campus life, Espenshade & Radford ... link ... paper
Espenshade et al Admissions Models: here
... Ideology and Facebook Followers: US Congress
Pew Foundation, 8/21/2017: Highly ideological members of Congress have more Facebook followers than moderates do ... link methodology
... Ideology: voteview.com ... Senate (data) ... House (data)
... Data analysis: senate data.xlsx ... house data: coming soon
Handout: here
... Putting a Price on Pain
Quartz, 8/9/2017: Economists have put a price on pain, and it’s $56-$145 a day ... link
... the 2017 study: [Olafsdottir Asgeirsdottir and Norton 2017] Valuing Pain.pdf
... Forget the Science... Pick by Algorithm
STATNews, 7/12/2017: Forget the science. These investors think they can pick biotech winners by algorithm ... link
... Broken Windows Redux
The New York Times, 8/10/2017: 644,000 Old warrants scrapped for crimes like public drinking ... link
... see Broken Windows postings below ... more material posted here
... Sentencing Guidelines ...Battling Editorials in The Washington Post (June, 2017)
Sally Q. Yates - The Washington Post, 7/23/2017: Making America scared again won’t make us safer ... link
Jeff Sessions - The Washington Post, 7/16/2017: Being soft on sentencing means more violent crime. It’s time to get tough again.... link
... one study: [Hunt Peterson 2014] Recidivism among offenders receiving retroactive sentence reductions ... additional papers posted here
... Female Doctors are Better (12/19/2016) ...
... Russian Hackers in Wisconsin (Election 2016) (11/22/2016) ...
... Clinton v. Trump ...
... and here
... Coffee Drinking and Mortality (11/17/2015) ...
... Wait Times @ Logan Airport ...
... Fumblegate ...
... Is Broken Windows a Sham? ...
... Soldier Suicide (JAMA - Jan 1, 2015) ...
... Warming in the Corners...
... China, Obesity and Cancer...