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Correlation gone wong? Kauffman Foundation study on education and entrepreneurship sparks controversy.

“The question is whether being educated in a ‘top’ school helps or not. And the design of the study simply does not allow any conclusion about this question, in either direction!“
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NO CORRELATION BETWEEN IVY LEAGUE EDUCATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Those who are born without the silver spoons in their mouths are more motivated to succeed.
UPDATE:
Prof Panos Ipeirotis wrote this comment, at TechCrunch:
“The question is whether being educated in a ‘top’ school helps or not. And the design of the study simply does not allow any conclusion about this question, in either direction!“

Why statistics (and probability) ought to be taught over calculus in America’s mathematics curriculum

Students should aspire to be “data samurais”.
Andrew Gelman, Lance Fortnow, Panos Ipeirotis and Bo Cowgill are hot again all of the sudden.
Amazing videos of Arthur Benjamin:

“Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not exist) and develop skills for which there is diminishing demand (research in subfields within subfields and publication in journals read by no one other than a few like-minded colleagues), all at a rapidly rising cost (sometimes well over $100,000 in student loans).”

“Abolish tenure”…

George Mason University is *not* in the top 50 graduate schools of economics.

US News & World Report – Rankings
GMU is in the second tier, not even ranked numerically.
Maybe some of the GMU professors spend too much time blogging (as opposed to producing fundamental and applied research), and maybe some of them spend too much time putting up the show. They should focus on improving the standing of [...]

A portfolio instead of a diploma

Excellent idea.
It inaugurates my new “Education” category and tag.

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