Data Analysis

A not-really-political study that I find hilarious.

Submitted by Dirty D on Tue, 01/06/2009 - 18:08

I don't know why I do this, but I read a lot of Republican blogs and magazines. I managed to find this piece of beauty at Culture 11's Ladyblog.

All too often on this site, we don't get to write about the non-politicall uses of data, quantitative methods and econometrics.  After the massive success of Levitt's Freakonomics, we saw a huge increase in the popularity of using economic methods to study quirky, clever or even cutesy problems.  Even non-quant people have gotten into the act.  One of the Culture 11  Ladybloggers theorized that selection bias explains why people think that jerks are more romantically successful than non-jerks.

Oh, and you know there's more.

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