This is my favorite reading list for OCTOBER 2016.
- Anthony Bourdain on the One Type of Food You Should Never Eat (http://time.com/4325309/anthony-bourdain-airplane-food/?xid=tcoshare)
- Fair Game? How many average workers’ salaries does it take to pay the CEO? (http://danariely.com/2016/10/17/fair-game-how-many-average-workers-salaries-does-it-take-to-pay-the-ceo-2/)
- Open Research for Academics: how to be an academic in the twenty-first century (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/10/25/open-research-for-academics-how-to-be-an-academic-in-the-twenty-first-century/)
- Student evaluations of teaching are not only unreliable, they are significantly biased against female instructors. (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/02/04/student-evaluations-of-teaching-gender-bias/)
- The link between avocados and crime (http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2016/10/economist-explains-9)
- The problem with p-values (https://aeon.co/essays/it-s-time-for-science-to-abandon-the-term-statistically-significant)
- The value of gun-toting film stars (http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/10/daily-chart-15?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/thevalueofguntotingfilmstars)
- Why African cities don’t make their residents richer (http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2016/10/economist-explains-1?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/whyafricancitiesdontmaketheirresidentsricher)
- Why do females avoid maths, even if it boosts their careers? (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2016/10/04/why-do-females-avoid-maths-even-if-it-boosts-their-careers/?utm_content=buffer6f792&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer)