<?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://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/does-lancet-stand-by-its-obesity.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Lancet&#8217;s obesity predictions</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/02/on-the-joy-of-mastery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Design things to be difficult</a>. HT: <a href="https://twitter.com/rorysutherland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rory Sutherland</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/industry-bad-public-good.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Is there any known safe level of government funding</a>?</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/life/the-wiki-man/9453442/want-more-diversity-hire-groups-not-individuals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Increasing diversity by hiring groups, not individuals</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;">Plenty of critiques of nudge-style interventions popping up, although they are rarely done well. <a href="http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/yes-youre-irrational-and-yes-thats-ok" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Here&#8217;s another</a>. And <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterubel/2015/02/20/q-a-with-richard-thaler-on-what-it-really-means-to-be-a-nudge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">what is a nudge?</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/your-dna-is-nothing-special" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A perspective on consumer genomics</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/wealth-heritability.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wealth heritability</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://timharford.com/2015/02/overconfidence-man/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Edging toward the right answer</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rich-data-poor-data/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why it is so much easier to data crunch sport than economics</a>.</li>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12px;">And if you missed them, my posts this week:</p>
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<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://jasoncollins.blog/2015/02/23/wisdom-from-tolstoy/">Tolstoy, behavioural scientist</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://jasoncollins.blog/2015/02/25/accepting-heritability/">The left and heritability</a>.</li>
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