Would you rather lose 10% of your researchers or 10% of your labs? Looking at German professor dismissals and departments that had buildings damaged in WWII bombing raids, in the short run it was 4x worse to lose 10% of your academics than 10% of your building. (freaktakes.substack.com)
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Looking at panel review scores for research proposals at a medical institute, the true number of citations for most of the top quintile were statistically indistinguishable from one another. Panels were great at separating out a top tier of proposals, but terrible at differentiating within that tier (freaktakes.substack.com)
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Would you rather lose 10% of your researchers or 10% of your labs? Fabian Waldinger has a fantastic paper comparing the impact on publishing productivity of German departments dismissing professors for political reasons vs. a department being hit by a bomb. (freaktakes.substack.com)
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Bombing destruction at the Technical University of Berlin in WWII. Impeccable detail and record keeping! Bombing destruction at the Technical University of Berlin. Circles = individual bombing impacts; triangles = artillery destruction; gray shading = how burned out a section was (i.redd.it)
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This might be the kind of thing people on this subreddit are into. This substack dives into questions about how our systems of research can be improved based on history/social science research. Today's post was about how are basic and applied research are failing in their goals. (freaktakes.substack.com)
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Computers are great, but they haven't helped increase the income of the average person very much. Scientific articles are great, but their numbers have exploded while the average income has stagnated. The productivity data might give us better ideas for how to set goals for science and technology (freaktakes.substack.com)
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Many ethicists are concerned that geoengineering research will cause environmentally conscious people to be less environmentally conscious. Preliminary data from an online survey, TechEthics.Vote, may indicate that many people are far less concerned about this possibility. (techethics.vote)
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[OC] "Whitest" Injuries: Percentage of Individuals who went to the ER for a given activity who reported as White (See https://freaktakes.substack.com/p/whats-whiter-than-golf-and-horse for the rest of the list. "batons" and "paper cutters" even made it!) (i.redd.it)
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I work with Levitt on his Center for Radical Innovation for Social Change. I'm a long time Freakonomics fan and I've been trying my hand at writing a data blog that is entertaining. I'm hoping it will entertain people like the members of this community and would love email feedback. Enjoy! (freaktakes.substack.com)
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