Effect Measure has a good post on economics of war and casualties
which comes from this research
sometimes it is intrinsically good to link...
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I'm skeptical of these sorts of psychological models - an important part of the terrorist strategy is to not have a coherent strategy - but it's certainly a noble effort:
Imagine that we had a mathematical formula that could be applied to Israel's enemies to predict their course of action?
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Over at Greg's place, Brian Switek notes:
Thanks for the link Greg (and thanks for the compliment, Steve). I've generally been unimpressed with Coyne's popular articles, especially given that he seems to go out of his way to attack Gould and evo-devo whenever it seems fit to do so (which is just…
It seems that war supporters with actual knowledge of statistics aren't willing to criticise the new Lancet study, leaving the field to folks who don't know what they are talking about.
John Howard:
Well, I don't believe that John Hopkins research, I don't. It's not plausible, it's not based on…
I
suppose this is good, although it is too little too late. It
would be a lot better to prevent these casualties in the first place.
href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070615/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/military_mental_health;_ylt=AkK1R.ayIAt68x7AdfLqKR.s0NUE">Army
plans to hire more psychiatrists…