Tag Archives: Education
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:
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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