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Our mutual friends

Learning with 'e's

Milgram''s question was, how many someones are in the chain?'' (Watts, 2003, p38.) The notion of wisdom of crowds put forward by James Surowiecki (2004) relies on people working together, even when they don''t know each other directly. 2004) The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few. References Jenkins, H.

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A New Social Science? Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields

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ALEXANDRIA, VA Statistics—the science of learning from data—is the fastest-growing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) undergraduate degree in the United States over the last four years, an analysis of federal government education data conducted by the American Statistical Association (ASA) revealed. From a press release.

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ProfHacker 2015 Holiday Gift Guide

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Technology. There have been several technologies that made my life better through this big change. So after hunting around and doing comparison reviews I purchased the 2015 Roku 2 , which is standalone, plugs into Ethernet connections and is service agnostic, which I really appreciate. John Mandel’s Station Eleven.