The Zenith of the Egghead Brigade
Thanks to Miguel Octavio for linking to this astonishing New York Times article on Benford’s law. Dr. Theodore P. Hill asks his mathematics students at the Georgia Institute...
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The Elasticity of the Vote for Dummies
Hausmann and Rigobon’s argument about the non-randomness of the CNE cold-audit sample is based on something they’ve called the “elasticity of the vote.” The concept is borrowed from...
The Zenith of the Egghead Brigade
Thanks to Miguel Octavio for linking to this astonishing New York Times article on Benford’s law. Dr. Theodore P. Hill asks his mathematics students at the Georgia Institute...
Pre-emptive Strike: Anticipating the Counterarguments to Hausmann and Rigobon
I’ve been reading and re-reading Hausmann and Rigobon’s piece to try to find holes in it. I’m finding it hard. The most obvious counterargument doesn’t seem to work…and...
Pre-emptive Strike: Anticipating the Counterarguments to Hausmann and Rigobon
I’ve been reading and re-reading Hausmann and Rigobon’s piece to try to find holes in it. I’m finding it hard. The most obvious counterargument doesn’t seem to work…and...
Hausmann and Rigobon: The incomprehensible, the evident and the damning
Hausmann and Rigobon’s paper on the evidence of fraud in the Recall Referendum makes three basic arguments. Instant reaction. 1.The Incomprehensible. Hausmann and Rigobon claim that a sophisticated...
Hausmann and Rigobon: The incomprehensible, the evident and the damning
Hausmann and Rigobon’s paper on the evidence of fraud in the Recall Referendum makes three basic arguments. Instant reaction. 1.The Incomprehensible. Hausmann and Rigobon claim that a sophisticated...
Puro cuarto bate
Ricardo Hausmann and Roberto Rigobon must be the two most respected and accomplished Venezuelan academics out there. You don’t get teaching posts at Harvard and MIT for tirar...
Puro cuarto bate
Ricardo Hausmann and Roberto Rigobon must be the two most respected and accomplished Venezuelan academics out there. You don’t get teaching posts at Harvard and MIT for tirar...
Alemo, serious planning, and where the hell do you get $60 billion?
One of the most interesting articles I got to write when I lived in Venezuela grew from a meeting I had with five privileged white men who had...
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