Random links
- Random Promotions
- The "''Peter Principle'': people in a workplace are promoted until they reach their ''level of incompetence.'' ... because we wrongly assume that people who are good at their jobs will also be good at jobs that are one rung up on the corporate ladder -- so we promote them." Why am I not surprised that the research suggesting that randomly promoting people might be better is based on a computer model?
- Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops
- Some classrooms are starting to phase out computers given the problems (like this or this) they seem to have introduced. Meanwhile, some Australian schools are moving to two wifi devices per kid.
- The Protection Battered Spouses Don’t Need
- A review of mandatory arrest laws for anyone accused of domestic violence: given roughly equal domestic homicide rates beforehand, now "in states with mandatory arrest laws, the homicides are about 50 percent higher today than they are in states without the laws."
- Prisoner killed girlfriend INSIDE jail and buried her body in his cell where it lay hidden for three months
- It's a little disturbing to think that they'd pay that little attention that something like this could happen, let alone have it take 3 months for someone to notice. Of course, if you look at prison rape, there's a lot that people can get away with in there.