<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Jason Collins blog]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://jasoncollins.blog]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Jason Collins]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://jasoncollins.blog/author/jasonacollins/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[A week of&nbsp;links]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="margin-bottom:12px;">Links this week:</p>
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<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/24/jared-diamond-bestselling-biogeographer-answers-critics" target="_blank">A good Jared Diamond interview</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/is-10000-hours-all-i-need-to-run-a-faster-marathon/" target="_blank">The 10,000 hours rule &#8211; the best you can do is find the peak of your own ability</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/fashion/tinder-the-fast-growing-dating-app-taps-an-age-old-truth.html" target="_blank">Tinder works because a picture is &#8220;worth that fabled thousand words, but your actual words are worth&#8230; almost nothing”</a>. (HT: <a href="https://twitter.com/razibkhan" target="_blank">Razib</a>)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/shortcuts/2014/oct/22/problem-with-cash-for-diagnosis" target="_blank">Dumb incentives</a>, although economists would be the first to point out a lot of the unintended consequences.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/do-financial-experts-make-better-decisions-than-the-rest-of-us/381902/" target="_blank">No evidence for the benefits of expertise for fund managers</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/10/the-drunk-utilitarian.html" target="_blank">Drunks are more utilitarian</a>. And <a href="http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/10/always-gamble-on-an-empty-stomach.html" target="_blank">maybe you should do that drinking on an empty stomach</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/social-psychology-biased-republicans" target="_blank">Are social psychologists biased against Republicans</a>?</li>
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