Showing posts with label reputation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reputation. Show all posts
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Scientists and policy makers with feet of clay

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  A recent article in The Lancet talks about the checkered career of the late James Watson (1928-2025), who participated in great science (t...
Monday, September 8, 2025

Reputations take a long time to build but can be quickly destroyed

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 US support for science is one of the things that will be hard to make reliable again. Here's a story from the Washington Post, about an...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

California Bans Legacy Admissions at Private Universities.

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  The NYT has the story: California Bans Legacy Admissions at Private Universities. The change will affect Stanford University, the Universi...
Friday, May 21, 2021

Journal of controversial ideas

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  Some ideas are controversial not just because some people think they are bad ideas, but because they think that they are the kinds of ide...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

Art museums selling art: relaxing the repugnance against "deaccessioning"

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  Here's an interesting look at the ways professional organizations can influence the behavior of their members by endorsing changes in ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Lies, damn lies, and internet conspiracy theories

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 One reason lies spread faster than true stories on social media is that lies can be designed to be clickbait, while the truth is constraine...
Monday, August 10, 2020

Reputation among thieves: ransomware and kidnapping

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Like everyone else, I occasionally get notifications of data breaches from organizations with which I have digital relations.  Often the bre...
Monday, January 20, 2020

Recommender systems behaving badly: YouTube and Instagram

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Why are readers drawn to sensationalist stories?  Why do content providers produce them?  It likely has something to do with the recommende...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Designing effective reputation systems, by Donaker, Kim, and Luca in HBR

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The Nov-Dec 2019 issue of the Harvard Business Review has an article offering some strategies for designing a reputation system that will h...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

Reputation in online marketplaces

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Two recent NBER papers tell us about trust, quality, and reputation in online marketplaces. BUYING REPUTATION AS A SIGNAL OF QUALITY: EV...
Monday, July 25, 2016

Trust and crime: Reputation in the (illegal) market for sex

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Quartz has an article on how sex workers can vet new customers, in the age of the internet:  Sex workers have created the perfect method fo...
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Monday, September 21, 2015

eBay is 20

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The Guardian has a nice column by John Naughton noticing that eBay is 20 years old this month, and suggesting that one of it's biggest...
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Friday, May 22, 2015

The market for early book reviews: commercial, crowd sourced, and bootleg

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My book,  Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design  isn't due to be published until June 2.  But the...
Monday, September 8, 2014

You can do a lot of good if you don't worry about who gets the credit

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Shane Greenstein's' piece on false claims of credit for inventing email got me thinking about the larger question of attributing an...
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Sunday, September 7, 2014

Shane Greenstein on a false history of email

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Sometimes people believe that they deserve more credit than they're getting, and Shane Greenstein writes about a man who believes he sh...
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Sunday, January 8, 2012

School choice: what makes schools popular in Boston

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One of the benefits of a strategy-proof school choice mechanism is that it yields meaningful data on parent preferences.  The Boston Globe ...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Mike Luca on Yelp

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My colleague Mike Luca (whose work I wrote about here  when he was still a grad student) has a paper on the influence of Yelp reviews on ...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

Will reputation and crowd sourcing facilitate alternative forms of peer review?

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That's the question raised in a (gated) article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about a proposal to publish papers online, and then...
Friday, August 27, 2010

The market for attention: recommender engines for Twitter

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How to decide what to pay attention to? A paper discusses several possible models for recommender engines for tweets: Short and Tweet: Exper...
Saturday, July 31, 2010

The market for boasting

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How did people boast signal before they had blogs? Not long ago I was the subject of a flattering profile in Forbes (which I wrote about...