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Fewer Voters Are Better Voters
A Guest Post by Jamie Whyte Last year, the British government decided to lift the top rate of income tax from 41 to 52 percent. Last month, Lord Myners, the UK Secretary of State for Financial...
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Blogging, Tic Tac Toe and the Future of Math
Blogging, as you might have heard, is changing the face of the media. It may also be changing the face of mathematical research. For the first time ever, a substantial mathematical problem has been...
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Make Them Gamble
A Guest Post by Jamie Whyte Last week, Britain had a referendum to decide whether or not to replace its current “first past the post” electoral system with the alternative vote system (AV). During the...
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Blind Spots
The other night at dinner, I was asked whether, when the Beatles came to the US in 1963, I had had any sense that something really big had happened. Well, I was pretty young in 1963, probably too young...
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A Curious Oversight
Got a great idea but don’t want to start a business? The Wall Street Journal offers a menu of strategies — but omits my favorite: Buy a whole lot of stock in a company that you believe could profit...
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Political Strategy
It now seems likely that: In order for either Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio to become the Republican nominee, he must first consolidate the anti-Trump vote, which is to say that either can succeed only if...
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An Algorithm For An Automated Meritocracy
A Guest Post by Bennett Haselton A 2006 study by Matthew Salganik and his co-researchers at Princeton suggests that a huge amount of effort is wasted in many different areas of human endeavor, and the...
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Promise Keeping
So apparently last week, while my attention was directed elsewhere, Donald Trump attempted to attract the support of conservatives by promising to choose all of his Supreme Court appointments from a...
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A Modified Algorithm for Evaluating Logical Arguments
A Guest Post by Bennett Haselton In a previous guest post I had argued that we should use a random-sample-voting algorithm in any kind of system that promotes certain types of content (songs,...
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Exploding Debit Cards
A Guest Post by Bennett Haselton The government sometimes issues stimulus checks in the hopes that the windfall will induce people to spend and stimulate the economy. Regardless of the merits of this...
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How to Organize a Waiting Line
I am just back from the G4G conference in Atlanta, where I gave a six-minute talk on how to organize a waiting line. The video of the actual talk will appear on the web eventually, but in the meantime,...
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