"You might want to tell this to the hordes Nobel-prize winning economists that have proven this relationship to be true as far back as Schumpeter in the 1960s and as recently as Muhammad Yunus with microfinance."

I'm not going to touch anything else in this convo, because it doesn't seem worth it, but Joseph Schumpeter never won a Nobel prize & while I will admit his theories were pretty interesting, they have also by and large been debunked by modern economists, so I'm not really sure why you'd mention him to bolster your…

I bought that coat when I moved to Chicago, and I agree with pretty much everything you said here! It's so warm and the hood actually works.

Dude, cargo shorts are the love child of cargo pants & Satan- do not wear them.

"Less likely to judge classmates based on gender" doesn't mean they have no preference for the gender balance of their classes. It means that once in a classroom, friendship choices are less based on gender than outside the classroom, which I find anecdotally to be true. It doesn't mean that if you asked girls to…

But it doesn't say that necessarily. "Girls in their shared set of courses" is not the same thing as "girls they are friends with". I read it more as girls don't want to be in heavily male dominated classrooms, and they use informally gathered info from their peer group to determine what courses will be more gender…

Honey, hate to break it to you, but you don't know shit about statistics. A sample size of 147 can be more than enough for generalization to the general population if the sample regression has small enough p-value on the appropriate variables.

I got where Dodai was coming from. Kerry Washington is the lead on a very popular show prime time and has probably landed maybe a third of the number of magazine covers in last three years, same song different verse for Zoe Saldana. It's a systematic problem in the fashion/women's magazine industry that more famous…

And I hope the clerk who racially profiled him gets canned.

It always drives me nuts on HGTV shows when American or Canadians call houses that are perfectly normal sized "small" because it's not a huge open-concept monster home. This is especially a problem on House Hunters International. Maybe it's because I grew up in an older house in a major metropolitan area where that…

It's not the blonde that's bland, my dear. When people complain about cookie-cutter blondes on Fox News (or in Hollywood, etc), it's about the overall image being presented, not just the blonde hair. The Fox News blondes are all blondes with minor variations of the exact same haircut, similar facial features, similar…

I think it's likely that the dogs did indeed chew on the faces of the stuffed animals to some degree, but then to facilitate this amazing act of dog-shaming the owners cut them up further so that the little criminals' heads would fit.

There's nothing wrong (in my opinion) with generally enjoying traditional Japanese dress like yukata, especially in appropriate contexts such as cherry blossom viewing. However on Halloween you dress up in costume as a character- cowboy, colonial, witch, Han Solo, nurse, Care Bear, whatever- these are characters. A…

A yukata is not a costume in itself, so I think if there's no larger idea (i.e. a historical figure or fictional character) that incorporates a yukata, then your costume just ends up being "Japanese person". Which would be as problematic as the above costumes.

It's a Master's degree either way, which is why I don't give a shit whether its actually an MA or Msc. Don't be so pedantic about it. Good for you that you find your MBA more useful than your stats degree, but that doesn't change the fact that a lot of finance is being dominated by those with degrees in physics,…

Sorry I use MA/MSc pretty interchangeably, but it doesn't really change my point that a) an Masters degree in Finance >> MBA for finance career hopefuls; and b) you'd probably still be better off with a hard math/statistics/programming background in finance either way.

I was under the impression that a MA in Finance was different from and MBA, though I fully admit that I may have made up that distinction. Also, most of the people my age (mid-20s) I know in finance have degrees in mathematics, physics or computer science, not actually finance. It's all about algorithms now.

Obviously not all MBA students want to become CEOs, but I'd assume if MBA programs really produced the cream of the crop in the business world, which the sort of prestigious and expensive MBA programs discussed in this article would certainly claim, then the majority of CEOs and other high level business execs would…

I saw a stat, in an anti-business school article published in either Forbes or WSJ or maybe Bloomberg, a year or two ago that pointed out that presently there are more CEOs in the US with PhDs in Economics (which you generally get paid to do) than there are CEos with MBAs. And there's even more CEOs overall that have…