Random links
- Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment
- Paying teachers bonuses in advance and threatening to take them back if students' performance doesn't improve seems to improve teaching quite a bit - paying them bonuses after the fact doesn't seem to have the same effect. I wonder if the same would apply to executive pay.
- Half-Assed Media Speculation About the Batman Shooter
- The Batman shooting are the fault of the Tea Party, the weakening of Judeo-Christian values, bullying, Trekkies, violent video games, Occupy Wall Street, and/or ...
- Immigration to Australian jail
- Mandatory sentencing for illegal immigrants appears to actually be boosting the number that show up on Australia's shores. Why? Free medical and dental care in jail, combined with pay for prison work amounting to about 10x what they could earn at home, mixed with comparative safety.
- Exposure to Sexual Content in Popular Movies Predicts Sexual Behavior in Adolescence
- "Researchers point out that it is important to remember that this research cannot conclude a direct causal effect of movies on sexual behavior." ... there's still that causation vs. correlation thing but I'd argue that the study's conclusions are somewhat to be expected.