<?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.newrepublic.com/article/120178/problem-international-development-and-plan-fix-it" target="_blank">Big ideas are destroying international development. Dream smaller</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;">Appealing to my biases &#8211; the skeptics guide to institutions <a href="http://growthecon.wordpress.com/2014/11/18/the-skeptics-guide-to-institutions-part-1/" target="_blank">Part 1</a> and <a href="http://growthecon.wordpress.com/2014/11/20/the-skeptics-guide-to-institutions-part-2/" target="_blank">Part 2</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://timharford.com/2014/11/finance-and-the-jelly-bean-problem/" target="_blank">Most published results in finance are false</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/11/be-mean-online/" target="_blank">Be mean, look smarter</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://nautil.us/issue/19/illusions/the-illusion-machine-that-teaches-us-how-we-see" target="_blank">Constructing illusions</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://infoproc.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/additivity-and-complex-traits-in-mice.html" target="_blank">Predicting complex genotypes from genomic data</a> &#8211; for those who confuse these two statements:</li>
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<p style="padding-left:30px;">&#8220;The brain is complex and nonlinear and many genes interact in its construction and operation.&#8221;</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">&#8220;Differences in brain performance between two individuals of the same species must be due to nonlinear (non-additive) effects of genes.&#8221;</p>
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