The NY Times had this editorial today about incentive bonuses. In the article, he presents seemingly strong evidence that bonuses shouldn’t matter. In experiments in India and MIT, participants who were offered truly substantial rewards performed *worse* than people who were offered small rewards. His conclusion: don’t pay large performance bonuses to [...]
These personal ads are hysterical. An example:
I am rational, integrated, and efficacious. So far, I’ve never met a person who lives up to the standard I hold for myself (except online).
I take my relationships seriously. I am simply not attracted to many of the women in this world. I do not “hook-up” with girls. [...]
I think I understand a little more why my mom was upset about the previous prank on Palin. I saw the coverage of this scandal on O’Reilly, and I was in total disbelief. I commented to my wife, “it must be a hatchet job.” But I meant by a Republican insider, not [...]
This map is really cool. It uses a color from red to blue to show the relative vote share of republicans and democrats. Most interestingly, it rescales the map so that area is equivalent to population, not land mass. Check out the whole page for other neat ones too.
It’s a trap, but frankly she does better parrying this French Canadian comedian than she did with Katie Couric. Enjoy!
And don’t forget to watch McCain on SNL if you missed it. The Republicans are all about humor as we lead into election day.
The last third is the most interesting, where he explains how to square a 5 digit number in his head. Enjoy!
Here is a snippet of what Nate Silver, author of FiveThirtyEight.com has to say about the election tomorrow:
7pm EST Virginia, for my money, is the most important state in this election. If John McCain loses it, his path to victory is exceptionally narrow—he would need to pull out an upset in Pennsylvania, while holding on [...]
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