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Capitalism, Hobbes, students, and the state: three out of four ain’t bad

You couldn’t make up this extract from a student’s essay a friend just sent me: If the state allows one to free to earn more money he will do so regardless of others positions in society as human...

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Random fun fact of the day

The polity project’s country code for Israel is …… 666. You would have guessed that, right? Somewhere in in the project’s basements lives a research assistant of Palestinian descent who never...

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Google-bombing the English Defence League

I could drone on about neo-Gramscian approaches to Social Media, but lets be frank: The English Disco Lovers’ attempt to displace the (so far) slightly better known English Defence League from...

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Polling Made Easy

Via Ben Stanley, the most reliable source of educative nonsense I can think of. The post Polling Made Easy appeared first on kai arzheimer.

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Random Fun Fact of the Day: Machine Learning and Statistics

Every sentient and internet enabled being in the Western world has by now noticed that Amazon’s “customers who bought this item” algorithm is one of the most successful exercises in machine learning....

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What Kind of Detective are you, method-wise?

Pat Thomson – drawing on work by Noel Gough – likens epistemological positions to crime-novel heroes. Turns out I’m a positivist (or post-positivist? why post-?) Sherlock, though I would rather be a...

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Cause for Concern?

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Joint Sessions 2013: Some Pictures and a Dalek

I know that blogging is a wee bit monothematic at the moment, and frankly, I could not care less. So here are some pictures of Jasmin’s lair, which by now contains roughly 700 conference bags (to be...

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ECPR Joint Sessions 2013 in the Social Media

Put 600 Political Scientists into a blizzard, and before you know, they start tweeting about the snow, coffee, and the occasional presentation. Here is the updated ECPR Joint Sessions 2013 in the...

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Statistical Songs Roundup

Today is clearly a day for statistical songs (are there any other days?), so here are some links to get you started. To kick of the stat song roundup, here are some … interesting insights into the...

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