Archive for June 9th, 2008
Hell and Heaven
I’m sure that the hour I spent wasted watching the second half France vs. Romania will be credited in Purgatory.
Netherlands vs. Italy, on the other hand, was pure bliss: Not only was the match entertaining, but Italy was soundly beaten as well.
Ranking
If you list some objects – cities, universities, whatever – and put numbers in front of each item, you have a ranking, and rankings these days represent the truth.
But what if you have two rankings where the #1 one the first ranking doesn’t even appear in the top-10 of the other ranking?
Also: Normblog. And just to fuel my dystopian view of the future of European universities.
links for 2008-06-09
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Football without strikers? It seems unthinkable, but Carlos Alberto Parreira, who led Brazil to World Cup glory in 1994, predicts 4-6-0 as the formation of the future
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It’s not just the Celtics: What experts know about why home teams do better
Sampling Prostitutes
No, we’re not talking about the debate over criminalising the buying of sex which has erupted in Denmark over the week-end, but research strategies: How do you get valid samples of your population when you study prostitutes?
As Elizabeth Pisani (A flame-throwing epidemiologist, no less) found out, it is not without complications.