2. Are more educated people more likely to own cats than dogs?
3. What will the supermarket look like after the blizzard?
4. ADHD people have "hyper-focus" (a flawed article, though).
5. Google voice transcriptions, formatted as poetry.
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I would like to understand what you mean by a flawed article. I have ADHD and can relate perfectly with what was written.
Smarter people own neither. If I want to pet a dog or cat, I visit someone that owns one.
Are more educated people more likely to own cats than dogs?
Who knew?
# 1 even here it seems odd to me how much power teachers have over students. I think that it might help if there was a separation of teaching and testing.
Also I have often heard of professors getting sexing for grades. Note I have never seen proof so I have no idea how much of that goes on.
Are more educated people more likely to live in cities? It’s much easier to have a cat in a city. Plus, dog lovers in a city may be more likely to opt to not have a pet at all.
MikeM, you must be a new reader here and have no idea what these ideologues teach their students. I have gotten into flaming blog wars with Bryan, Russ Roberts, and Don Boudreaux over this repeatedly.
They teach their students that economic theory shows that the only way replacement supplies can get into a disaster area is some guy in a pick up truck charging $30, for example for a bag of ice that people can get a block or two down the block from Wal Mart, CVS or Home Deport for example.
They have even made the claim that Wal Mart can not get supplies into disaster areas without raising prices. They deny that modern corporation can be motivated by anything but maximizing short run profits and make a hero of some guy in a pick-up truck charging exorbitant prices to exploit victims of natural disasters.
I use to think that libertarianism had a lot to offer until I stated reading the GMU blogs and realized the bad economics they were teaching there. People like Don Boudreaux think that free market economics works exactly like they use to teach it in the Moscow academies back in the cold war days. The only difference between the way he teaches how free market economies work and the way the communist use to teach it is they said it was a bad thing and he says it is a great thing.
Are more educated people more likely to own cats than dogs?
not equal to :
People who own a cat are more likely to have a university degree than those with a pet dog, a study by Bristol University suggests.
It could be that fewer educated people own cat than dogs but more of that cat owners are educated.
But any it does seem to me that there are more cat haters among the lower classes.
Spencer advocating that people should not be punished for selling for a high price during or after and emergency is not the same as saying “that economic theory shows that the only way replacement supplies can get into a disaster area is some guy in a pick up truck charging $30″.
6. Does bicameralism matter?
From the paper:
“A full analysis of the bicameral pork game is beyond the scope of this chapter.”
But the conclusion is great:
“In this essay, we have considered a number of arguments in favor of bicameralism as an organizing principal for modern legislatures. When viewed through the tools of contemporary legislative analysis – spatial, multilateral bargaining, and informational models – the case for bicameralism seems less than overwhelming. Even in models where bicameralism might have an effect, we find that the necessary conditions for such an effect are empirically rare. Further, much of the empirical evidence of the policy effects bicameralism is either weak or attributable to either malapportionment or supermajoritarianism, outcomes that could theoretically be produced in unicameral
legislatures.”
Maybe the Founders realized that many things capable of being produced “theoretically” would be better actually accomplished by bicameralism. Also, each state getting 2 senate seats was the price paid by the bigger states for getting the smaller states on board.
Or maybe the models are not robust enough?
4. Ever noticed the concept of genius has been diagnosed away?
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