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a discipline of anecdotes?

I was just taking a break and cruising through the Psychology Today website and I ran into this little quote: “Science never ends with an anecdote; otherwise, it would be sociology.” This was the lead...

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The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly: 21 Seconds

OK, since no one is posting, you get to endure another Monopoly post! After our recent attempt to play the shortest actual game of Monopoly on record, we started to wonder about what the shortest...

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over the 100k mark

As a blogger, you sooner or later experience the feeling that your readers and/or the whole world are a bit nuts. Case in point: The monopoly post just went over 100,000 hits. Is this REALLY that...

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the sequel is never as good as the original, but…

Monopoly has taken over my life. I could never have predicted what a 21-second game of Monopoly has spawned. A few tidbits for you about our “shortest” game: Over 280,000 views on Youtube. Over 125,000...

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the spiral of textbook costs

There’s a mildly interesting exchange on the NY Times website about textbook prices. The authors and commenters hit most of the pertinent facts, with a fair sprinkling of misinformation as well (like...

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the scatterplot official* ranking of sociology graduate programs

After seeing the NRC ranking of graduate programs, my first impulse was to simply ignore it.  The process has been a mess–and now the results reflect that mess perfectly.  My second instinct was to...

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frances fox piven under attack

January 24, 2011 Dear members of the Collective Behavior and Social Movement Section of ASA We write to express our outrage at the way in which our esteemed colleague, Frances Fox Piven, has been...

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for your consideration: the journal of universal rejection

About the Journal | Instructions for Authors | Subscriptions | Archives Editor-in-Chief: Caleb Emmons About the Journal The founding principle of the Journal of Universal Rejection (JofUR) is...

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yet another blog?

I know you’ve all been just dying for another blog to read, haven’t you?  Well, I’m here to satisfy! Today marks the the public launch of Mobilizing Ideas, a new scholarly (or perhaps...

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poll bias

With all the poll watching that goes on in elections these days, the question of how accurate the polls are has become more interesting (to me at least).  I’ve been informally tracking the question of...

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fun with moocs: i “heart” stats

As many of you already know, I am leaving Notre Dame to become the provost at Marquette University in a couple of months.  I am really excited to get started there, but I have a couple of things to...

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