The ever growing to-blog list

West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more) 2013-04-10

Something on the optimal partitioning of time based on this from Neal Stephenson and John D. Cook. Mental Floss lists sometimes look a bit too good to be true but this list of scientific accidents would be a nice starting place for a post on the importance of open-ended research. It's just possible that video gamers are over-represented in online polls. The final chapter the JCP saga? We've already covered this as a fitness landscape problem, now we can talk about the dubious record of the great man theory of business management. A whole thread on this excellent piece by E.O. Wilson on how much math a scientist really needs and this follow-up by Paul Krugman on the role of intuition.