5 thoughts on “My talk at Stanford on Tuesday”

1. Who drew those little cartoons in the slides?

2. I love these, but could you create a slide file w/out the animations? Or do you prefer the "live experience"?

3. Tom S.: The article was published in the American Scientist–their cartoonist did the drawings.

   Dkb: Yes, it just takes a bit more work to make two versions of each talk!

4. After seeing your talk, I thought you'd like to know about this paper:

   The Ratio of Male to Female Births as Affected by Wars
   by E. R. Shaw, in JASA, 1922
   http://www.jstor.org/stable/2277532

   Shaw looks at a theory that just following a war, the proportion of male births rises. He quotes several authors who consider this a well known fact. But looking at data he finds no evidence for it.

5. Prof. Gelman, enjoyed your talk yesterday. What do you make of this study about the effect of motivation on IQ results that's exciting the media?
   http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/04/19/1018…

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