News flash and a little economics: the animals that produced ivory currently being bought and sold on the black market are already dead. Destroying that ivory will not bring them back to life. It will, however, decrease the supply of ivory, drive up the price, and … encourage more poaching. Continue Reading →
In fact, retiring baby boomers is exactly the wrong explanation for the declining LFPR. The main source of the decline is among the 16-34 age group, but the 35-44 age group also shows a small decline. Continue Reading →
It’s made even worse this year by the non-response rate to polls, hovering near 90 percent. That means for every ten calls a pollster makes, they get one response. So much for the “random sample” assumption. Continue Reading →
But there was not one mention of rent control which has been in effect in San Francisco for about 30 years. Continue Reading →
I won’t comment on “nature knows best” except to say that Mr. Commoner apparently never encountered a rattlesnake, ebola, or an active volcano. He needed to get out more. Continue Reading →
Let’s see. 10 am – 10 pm. Ms. Block is sure no rocket scientist. Continue Reading →
This is typical media stupidity. Tweets are public unless you work very hard to keep them private. Most people on Twitter do not reveal much about their personal lives. There are many fake personas, too. Our cat has a Twitter feed (made up mostly of other household pets and other animals). People routinely lie. People will also lie to a telephone pollster, but at least they don’t have the incentive of their response being visible to the entire world. Continue Reading →
Magical thinking. That’s what’s going on here. B.A. or B.S. degrees have magical properties. Get one and you’re set. Don’t worry about whether your major is electrical engineering, computer science, or history. Continue Reading →