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	<title>Zero Sum &#187; ravi</title>
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		<title>The mishmashing of Gould: scientific method and bias</title>
		<link>http://0sum.org/archives/122</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David DeGusta and Jason Lewis, writing in the New Scientist, raise the question &#8220;Is bias inevitable in science?&#8220;, and answer: Stephen Jay Gould claimed unconscious bias could affect even seemingly objective scientific measurements. Not so. Why not? Because &#8220;[scientific] method is so robust&#8221; that it can overcome the bias of scientists. Scientific Method has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black identity</title>
		<link>http://0sum.org/archives/92</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 16:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Henry Louis Gates Jr. told Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge police, “You don’t know who you’re messing with,” he was speaking truth to power, albeit in a manner more akin to arrogance than erudition. The big shock here, according to the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Eugene Robinson, is not that a Harvard professor misused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYT, numbers and the influence of cable telivision</title>
		<link>http://0sum.org/archives/58</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commenting on the Stewart/Colbert non-rally in the NYRB, Janet Malcolm approvingly quotes David Carr from the New York Times: Most Americans don’t watch or pay attention to cable television. In even a good news night, about five million people take a seat on the cable wars, which is less than 2 percent of all Americans. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The recession: Dip once and end it right there, says 538</title>
		<link>http://0sum.org/archives/53</link>
		<comments>http://0sum.org/archives/53#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 03:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world of polling is a murky one. Outside of psychology and economics, it may be the only proclaimed mathematical/scientific enterprise where participants can arrive at wildly variant conclusions, and not have their predictions subject to validation by reality. FiveThirtyEight is a political blog (now part of the New York Times) that has of late [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News and Links for Sep 22 &#8211; Sep 23</title>
		<link>http://0sum.org/archives/35</link>
		<comments>http://0sum.org/archives/35#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Links]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[News and Links for Sep 22 through Sep 23: BBC &#124; Tamil census ordered in Colombo Experts See a Need for Punitive Action in Bailout &#8211; NYTimes.com BBC &#124; Russian navy sails to Venezuela BBC &#124; Men with sexist views &#8216;earn more&#8217; College Panel Calls for Less Focus on SATs &#8211; NYTimes.com Cash for Trash [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News and Links for Sep 12 &#8211; Sep 16</title>
		<link>http://0sum.org/archives/30</link>
		<comments>http://0sum.org/archives/30#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Links]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[News and Links for Sep 12 through Sep 16: Why the Fed Can&#8217;t Let A.I.G. Go Under &#8211; Op-Ed &#8211; NYTimes.com Pakistan in border warning to US Did Saakashvili Lie?: The West Begins to Doubt Georgian Leader &#8211; SPIEGEL Israel raid &#8216;could be war crime&#8217; Floods and caste]]></description>
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		<title>News and Links for Sep 11 &#8211; Sep 12</title>
		<link>http://0sum.org/archives/28</link>
		<comments>http://0sum.org/archives/28#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Links]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[News and Links for Sep 11 through Sep 12: Chavez expels US ambassador, as row grows between US and Bolivia Israel &#8216;annexes&#8217; West Bank areas US &#8216;provoked Russia-Georgia war&#8217; No victory in Iraq says Petraeus Russian bombers land in Venezuela]]></description>
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		<title>News and Links for Sep 9 &#8211; Sep 10</title>
		<link>http://0sum.org/archives/25</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Links]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[News and Links for September 9th through September 10th: Migration fears unjustified, OECD &#124; BBC - A backward-looking Booker selection -]]></description>
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		<title>Jeffrey Sachs on Malthus</title>
		<link>http://0sum.org/archives/21</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Jeffrey Sachs commentary on Malthusian population fears touches on the possibly zero sum nature of "growth" (technological or otherwise).]]></description>
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		<title>Sean Carroll and David Albert on Quantum Mechanics</title>
		<link>http://0sum.org/archives/18</link>
		<comments>http://0sum.org/archives/18#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<title>Girls and the hard stuff</title>
		<link>http://0sum.org/archives/11</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A review of the ongoing debate over female vs. male innate abilities in mathematics and science.
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		<title>Eye-tracking and cultural values!</title>
		<link>http://0sum.org/archives/9</link>
		<comments>http://0sum.org/archives/9#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[File this under awesome generalisations: Face-Off: East vs. West &#8212; Zelkowitz 2008 (820): 3 &#8212; ScienceNOW [...] The eye-tracker confirmed that Westerners tend to dart from the eyes to the mouth and back again. Conversely, the East Asian students fixated on central points in the face, which the researchers believe enables them to view all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science and the public</title>
		<link>http://0sum.org/archives/5</link>
		<comments>http://0sum.org/archives/5#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post is the first in a series of ruminations that fall under the title offered ("Science and the public"). This one deals with medicine and the making of public opinion in light of recent controversies surrounding vaccination.]]></description>
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		<title>The 3am phone call, and US Georgia hypocrisy</title>
		<link>http://0sum.org/archives/4</link>
		<comments>http://0sum.org/archives/4#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Stewart mocks the media&#8217;s &#8220;3am&#8221; cliche, as well as the verbal dance required from the US administration in criticising Russia&#8217;s action in Georgia.]]></description>
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		<title>The recent WTO debacle</title>
		<link>http://0sum.org/archives/3</link>
		<comments>http://0sum.org/archives/3#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With regard to the recent unsuccessful culmination of the WTO talks in Geneva, there are, as can be expected, alternate accounts on the causes and culprits. The International Herald Tribune quotes French opinion that blame lies with India and China: France&#8217;s agriculture minister said Wednesday that &#8220;big emerging countries&#8221; were to blame for the collapse [...]]]></description>
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