Best Face Forward

Surprise, pretty faces may get more votes, though I'm a little skeptical of some of the study's conclusions.

So is Andrew Gelman: of Statistical Modeling

from BPS Research Digest

Price setting and the doggy-in-the-window problem

Ian Ayres at Freakonomics:

"When my 7-year-old daughter said she desperately wanted a dog, I told her ... she could have one if she published an article in a peer-reviewed journal."

Two thoughts:

1) Man, I'm glad he's not my Dad.

2) Number of publications in peer-review journals:

Me: 0

Teenage daughter of Ian Ayres: 1