links for 2010-01-20

• SCSUScholars–Typecasting academics
  // Why are professors so liberal? Typecasting? They're just smarter than everyone else? What?

  My liberal co-worker goes back to the "smart people are mostly liberal" argument all the time, and it'd be nice to have a solid answer to give him.

  (tags: education liberalism)
• The Story Of A Man Who Refused To Buy A Girl A Drink « Roissy in DC
  // Via Captain Capitalism.
  (tags: dating funny women gender)
• 6 Logical Fallacies That Cost You Money Every Day | Cracked.com
  // I have a real problem worshipping in Obama. This fallacy did not make the list. Via Phil Miller on Twitter.
  (tags: economics finance humor behavior thinking fallacy logic brain psychology)
• SCSUScholars–Beware arguing with an economist
  // You'd be shocked how often bargaining for a price works.
  (tags: economics finance MOB)

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