Rights against appellate double jeopardy
The prisoner's dilemma is a simple and famous illustration of a problem that's very common. One of the areas in which it is common is...
Is measurement in social science a fractal?
Do we know in social science what it is that we are measuring or does any bit of data we look at on closer inspection...
“Values based management”
https://twitter.com/NGruen1/status/1529689205420720129 Herewith today's column in the Age and SMH. George Orwell was a stickler for plain and simple English in public discourse. He argued that...
Lincoln
I went to see Lincoln last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. The first five minutes was pretty dreadful with Lincoln meeting a couple of black soldiers...
What does Waleed Aly mean when he says Labor has lost the plot?
I enjoyed Waleed Aly's latest National Times column. But the more I read it, the more I wonder what he means. "Labor has lost the...
What is Racism?
At the moment, I am writing an empirical study into racism in Queensland, which I will report on at a later date. It made me...
The banality of bullshit
Yesterday I came across a fairly innocuous story about the seafood industry on AM. It is headlined (on the website) and introduced thus. Australia's seafood...