Some fresh bookmarks from delicious.com:

  • Economist: Wrong Numbers – Global league tables are interesting, but not always reliable. Few people pay attention to margins of error. Combined indices in particular can be very sensitive to small changes in underlying data.
  • Earn Trust By Never Doing Anything For Your Children – As parents, we often find that it’s easier to do a task ourselves than to spend time teaching the children how to do it. After all, they’ll learn when they’re older, right?
  • Paracetamol hade inte godkänts i dag – Paracetamol is dangerous even when not overdosed (which can lead to a nasty death) – its hormone-disrupting effect is three times stronger than that of phtalates which everyone is worrying about. (In Swedish.)