More coverage of elite college admissions in the links below.
Inside Higher Ed on the Espenshade study (see comments!). NYTimes blog on "merit" and admissions angst.
Whistle blower report by a UCLA professor Timothy Groseclose on administration attempts to circumvent Proposition 209. If you read this report you will have a good idea of the micro-level dynamics and political economy of UC admissions. The title is pretty strong: Report on suspected malfeasance in UCLA admissions and the accompanying cover-up; let's see how long Groseclose retains the Marvin Hoffenberg Chair of American Politics :-/
- Steve Hsu
- Professor of physics at the University of Oregon. Homepage. Archive. Favorite posts.
Friday, November 06, 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
Labels
- finance (168)
- globalization (157)
- physics (152)
- credit crisis (80)
- credit crunch (77)
- brainpower (75)
- genetics (49)
- technology (47)
- economics (44)
- gilded age (43)
- China (39)
- cdo (37)
- startups (37)
- science (35)
- derivatives (31)
- universities (31)
- iq (30)
- income inequality (29)
- mortgages (29)
- books (28)
- bubbles (28)
- ai (25)
- subprime (25)
- human capital (24)
- behavioral economics (23)
- elitism (23)
- hedge funds (23)
- careers (21)
- psychometrics (21)
- innovation (20)
- housing (18)
- psychology (18)
- education (17)
- quantum mechanics (17)
- american society (16)
- treasury bailout (15)
- biology (14)
- efficient markets (14)
- evolution (14)
- expert prediction (14)
- genius (14)
- ultimate fighting (14)
- caltech (13)
- cds (13)
- many worlds (13)
- wall street (13)
- obama (12)
- social science (12)
- foo camp (11)
- history of science (11)
- photos (11)
- quants (11)
- black holes (10)
- bounded rationality (10)
- entrepreneurs (10)
- malcolm gladwell (10)
- mma (10)
- academia (9)
- freeman dyson (9)
- political correctness (9)
- string theory (9)
- talks (9)
- travel (9)
- genetic engineering (8)
- hedonic treadmill (8)
- mutants (8)
- robot genius (8)
- algorithms (7)
- athletics (7)
- cognitive science (7)
- economic history (7)
- feynman (7)
- geopolitics (7)
- mathematics (7)
- podcasts (7)
- politics (7)
- sci fi (7)
- silicon valley (7)
- anthropic principle (6)
- geeks (6)
- happiness (6)
- intellectual history (6)
- japan (6)
- literature (6)
- nassim taleb (6)
- olympics (6)
- real estate (6)
- singularity (6)
- ashkenazim (5)
- aspergers (5)
- autism (5)
- berkeley (5)
- chess (5)
- entropy (5)
- gender (5)
- goldman sachs (5)
- google (5)
- hugh everett (5)
- india (5)
- keynes (5)
- manhattan (5)
- nobel prize (5)
- probability (5)
- qcd (5)
- security (5)
- sports (5)
- university of oregon (5)
- usain bolt (5)
- Einstein (4)
- affirmative action (4)
- aig (4)
- alpha (4)
- conferences (4)
- games (4)
- harvard (4)
- kerviel (4)
- markets (4)
- movies (4)
- nerds (4)
- perimeter institute (4)
- poker (4)
- pseudoscience (4)
- social networks (4)
- soros (4)
- statistics (4)
- tail risk (4)
- teaching (4)
- trento (4)
- venture capital (4)
- volatility (4)
- Go (3)
- babies (3)
- biotech (3)
- charles darwin (3)
- climate change (3)
- cryptography (3)
- determinism (3)
- equity risk premium (3)
- fannie (3)
- flynn effect (3)
- free will (3)
- fst (3)
- global warming (3)
- humor (3)
- information theory (3)
- jiujitsu (3)
- mixed martial arts (3)
- neuroscience (3)
- new yorker (3)
- nuclear weapons (3)
- oppenheimer (3)
- paris (3)
- path integrals (3)
- philip k. dick (3)
- privacy (3)
- quantum field theory (3)
- renaissance technologies (3)
- scifoo (3)
- search (3)
- sivs (3)
- society generale (3)
- turing test (3)
- ufc (3)
- vietnam war (3)
- wwii (3)
- 100m (2)
- 200m (2)
- ability (2)
- alan turing (2)
- bear stearns (2)
- blade runner (2)
- blogging (2)
- bobby fischer (2)
- brain drain (2)
- cambridge uk (2)
- charles babbage (2)
- christmas (2)
- cold war (2)
- complexity (2)
- computing (2)
- data mining (2)
- dating (2)
- eliot spitzer (2)
- environmentalism (2)
- eugene (2)
- facebook (2)
- film (2)
- france (2)
- freddie (2)
- game theory (2)
- gaussian copula (2)
- higher education (2)
- history (2)
- inequality (2)
- internet (2)
- iraq war (2)
- james watson (2)
- judo (2)
- kasparov (2)
- les grandes ecoles (2)
- lewontin fallacy (2)
- lhc (2)
- ltcm (2)
- machine learning (2)
- mccain (2)
- meritocracy (2)
- michael lewis (2)
- monsters (2)
- moore's law (2)
- music (2)
- neal stephenson (2)
- no holds barred (2)
- nonlinearity (2)
- nsa (2)
- oligarchs (2)
- palin (2)
- philosophy of mind (2)
- physical training (2)
- prostitution (2)
- race relations (2)
- rationality (2)
- risk preference (2)
- skidelsky (2)
- socgen (2)
- sprints (2)
- taiwan (2)
- television (2)
- von Neumann (2)
- warren buffet (2)
- Iran (1)
- Poincare (1)
- abx (1)
- anathem (1)
- andrew lo (1)
- antikythera mechanism (1)
- art (1)
- assortative mating (1)
- athens (1)
- atlas shrugged (1)
- ayn rand (1)
- basketball (1)
- bay area (1)
- bayes (1)
- beats (1)
- bill gates (1)
- book search (1)
- borges (1)
- bruce springsteen (1)
- bunnie huang (1)
- car dealers (1)
- carlos slim (1)
- catastrophe bonds (1)
- censorship (1)
- ces 2008 (1)
- chance (1)
- charlie munger (1)
- cheng ting hsu (1)
- children (1)
- class (1)
- cloning (1)
- cochran-harpending (1)
- correlation (1)
- cosmology (1)
- cpi (1)
- crossfit (1)
- david x. li (1)
- democracy (1)
- demographics (1)
- dick cavett (1)
- digital books (1)
- dna (1)
- dolomites (1)
- donald mackenzie (1)
- drugs (1)
- econtalk (1)
- ecosystems (1)
- eharmony (1)
- empire (1)
- encryption (1)
- energy (1)
- epidemics (1)
- escorts (1)
- exchange rates (1)
- faces (1)
- fads (1)
- fake alpha (1)
- favorite posts (1)
- feminism (1)
- fiber optic cable (1)
- fitness (1)
- football (1)
- francis crick (1)
- fx (1)
- gary brecher (1)
- geoffrey miller (1)
- gizmos (1)
- godel (1)
- government (1)
- greece (1)
- greenspan (1)
- harvard society of fellows (1)
- heinlein (1)
- hormones (1)
- hypocrisy (1)
- igon value (1)
- iit (1)
- industrial revolution (1)
- inflation (1)
- information asymmetry (1)
- intellectual property (1)
- intellectual ventures (1)
- iphone (1)
- italy (1)
- jack kerouac (1)
- jaynes (1)
- jfk (1)
- jim simons (1)
- john dolan (1)
- john kerry (1)
- john paulson (1)
- john searle (1)
- john tierney (1)
- jonathan littell (1)
- kids (1)
- language (1)
- las vegas (1)
- lawyers (1)
- lee kwan yew (1)
- lehman auction (1)
- les bienveillantes (1)
- lowell wood (1)
- lse (1)
- luck (1)
- mating (1)
- mba (1)
- mcgeorge bundy (1)
- mexico (1)
- michael jackson (1)
- mickey rourke (1)
- microsoft (1)
- migration (1)
- mit (1)
- money:tech (1)
- monkeys (1)
- myron scholes (1)
- nathan myhrvold (1)
- national character (1)
- net worth (1)
- netwon institute (1)
- networks (1)
- new york times (1)
- newton institute (1)
- nfl (1)
- nicholas metropolis (1)
- noam chomsky (1)
- offices (1)
- oliver stone (1)
- olympiads (1)
- patents (1)
- pca (1)
- phil gramm (1)
- philanthropy (1)
- philip greenspun (1)
- population structure (1)
- portfolio theory (1)
- power laws (1)
- prisoner's dilemma (1)
- quantum computers (1)
- randomness (1)
- realpolitik (1)
- recession (1)
- russia (1)
- sad but true (1)
- sales (1)
- satoshi kanazawa (1)
- sec (1)
- simulation (1)
- skype (1)
- software development (1)
- solar energy (1)
- standard deviation (1)
- star wars (1)
- starship troopers (1)
- students today (1)
- success (1)
- supercomputers (1)
- systemic risk (1)
- teleportation (1)
- thailand (1)
- tierney lab blog (1)
- tomonaga (1)
- twitter (1)
- tyler cowen (1)
- ussr (1)
- variance (1)
- venice (1)
- violence (1)
- virtual meetings (1)
- virtual reality (1)
- war (1)
- war nerd (1)
- wealth effect (1)
- ww ii (1)
1 comments:
The comments on NYTimes blog are fun to read. I think I'm going to start using YAES: yet another eagle scout. But what do I know, I was a legacy admit at Caltech.
Post a Comment