Scott Young ponders how honest to be about status:People tend to ignore the status benefits of wealth. Most obviously because seeking status is a low-status behavior. Anyone seen grubbing for fame or new toys to impress their friends becomes less...
Topics: Charity, Hypocrisy, Status, Uncategorized

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Hal Finney recently commented:[Johnstone & Finch's] Scientific Scandal of Antismoking … makes the case that smoking is not bad for your health. … [It has] the superficial appearance of referencing scientific studies and claiming the...
Topics: Medicine, Science, Uncategorized

{"title":"Random Smoking Trials","post_url":"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/2009\/12\/what-anti-smoking-evidence.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/rss.xml","author":"robinhanson","date":"2009-12-14 11:10:47","summary":"Hal Finney recently commented:[Johnstone & Finch's] Scientific Scandal of Antismoking … makes the case that smoking is not bad for your health. … [It has] the superficial appearance of referencing scientific studies and claiming the..."}

Iwona Kicinger, the first PhD student whose thesis committee I have chaired, defends her dissertation tomorrow morning.  One part finds that US firms that self-insure, thereby avoiding many health insurance regulations, spend 18-25% more per employee on.
Topics: Medicine, Regulation, Uncategorized

{"title":"Less Reg = More Med","post_url":"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/2009\/12\/less-reg-more-med.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/rss.xml","author":"robinhanson","date":"2009-12-07 16:50:12","summary":"Iwona Kicinger, the first PhD student whose thesis committee I have chaired, defends her dissertation tomorrow morning.\u00a0 One part finds that US firms that self-insure, thereby avoiding many health insurance regulations, spend 18-25% more per employee on."}

“Oh, my God! You’re actually getting married in a few hours! I mean, everything’s gonna be all different. Carla, you never have to have sex again except for when you actually want to.”  Elliot from Scrubs.Husbands often complain..
Topics: Gender, Hypocrisy, Mating, Uncategorized

{"title":"Married Sex","post_url":"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/2009\/12\/married-sex.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/rss.xml","author":"robinhanson","date":"2009-12-06 13:40:27","summary":"“Oh, my God! You’re actually getting married in a few hours! I mean, everything’s gonna be all different. Carla, you never have to have sex again except for when you actually want to.”\u00a0 Elliot from Scrubs.Husbands often complain.."}

The Boston Globe published an article in September, subtitled, “Billions of dollars and a Nobel Prize later, it looks like ‘microlending’ doesn’t actually do much to fight poverty.” …Three important randomised controlled trials were...
Topics: Charity, Finance, Uncategorized

{"title":"Microlending Fails","post_url":"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/2009\/12\/microlending-fails.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/rss.xml","author":"robinhanson","date":"2009-12-06 03:00:19","summary":"The Boston Globe published an article in September, subtitled, \u201cBillions of dollars and a Nobel Prize later, it looks like \u2018microlending\u2019 doesn\u2019t actually do much to fight poverty.\u201d …Three important randomised controlled trials were..."}