2. Satire of a Tyler Cowen book review, via Bamber
3. Japanese barcodes, via David Zetland
4. Leonhard Euler, via www.geekpress.com
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Parody only works if it’s plain what you are parodying. Not so in this case.
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
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.
Wasn’t a fan of your Cloverfield review, huh?
“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).
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