Archive for category: Freakonomics

Freako covers fago    (2010.12.17)

Freakonomics actually covers my work on gay money. Funny how no one else in the mainstream press, including gay papers, has

Freakonomics of child restraints    (2010.03.29)

What Levitt and Dubner write in Freakonomics about child restraints just is not accurate or specific enough

What the sequel to ‘Freakonomics’ really ought to be called    (2009.10.14)

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How much money does Cory Doctorow make?    (2009.07.29)

By his own admission, I estimate the figure is $200,000 to $300,000 a year

Non-freakonomics of bobsleigh    (2008.03.15)

If teams everywhere are short of bobsledders, why aren’t they looking at cripples?

Qualitative vs. quantitative    (2006.07.09)

Ideas for measuring accessibility

The freakonomics of audio description    (2006.07.02)

Like captioning, audio description is a field where numbers don’t tell you anything of much use

‘Chix with Stix’ redux redux    (2006.03.18)

More on wymmynz in men’s hockey: Yes, height/weight is a stronger indicator than body-mass index

The freakonomics of captioning errors    (2006.03.15)

How do you count captioning errors? What if it’s actually impossible?