If you live under a rock, an overview of knols. This is not what I had in mind when I said I was no longer going to be linking to Wikipedia. A Wikipedia replacement/substitute may be an alright initiative (if it does well, so be it, if not, that is ok too), but it still [...]
The HDI obviously has its problems. For the mortality numbers especially, the ‘value of life’ methods would be a lot more satisfying than the current methodology. In line with the poor linking practices of some bloggers (I suspect, the bigger the name, the fewer links provided for claims, say, conditional on the existence of a [...]
I often link to Wikipedia. No, it is not authoritative. Encyclopedias have not for a long time, probably at least the past 75 years, been an authoritative reference on the state of academic knowledge. They have instead transformed into a general reference, a starting point for further reference and research. There was a time, of [...]
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