From Overcoming Bias.
Quantum physics is not “weird”. You are weird. You have the absolutely bizarre idea that reality ought to consist of little billiard balls bopping around, when in fact reality is a perfectly normal cloud of complex amplitude in configuration space. This is your problem, not reality’s, and you are the one who needs to change.
And, one of the most simple yet insightful statements I have ever read.
Surprise exists in the map, not in the territory.
Think about it.
From a study by Justin Wolfers and Joseph Price.
An academic study of NBA officiating found that white referees called fouls at a greater rate against black players than against white players, The New York Times reported in Wednesday’s editions.
The NBA is violently objecting to this study, citing internal research on better, more robust data.
Looking at each study’s data set makes this story more interesting.
A request by Wolfers and Price to obtain the NBA’s data set was rejected.
The NBA needs to stop this hard and fast. How can they do so? Either hope it blows over or make their data set publicly available. Citing their private data set will not do enough to convince skeptics.
I wonder if, they did decide to release their data set, they would try to “massage” it to remove racial biases. If they did that, I wonder if it would be possible to identify if massaging occurred, similar to the Freakonomics story about the Chicago Public Schools teachers…
Just reading the title of the article made me laugh out loud: “World’s tallest man saves dolphin”
Mongolian herdsman Bao Xishun was called in after the dolphins swallowed plastic used around their pool at an aquarium in Fushun, north-east China.
A little old, but still Quite Noteworthy.
