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Second-year Master’s in Public Policy candidates at the Harvard Kennedy School completed their Policy Analysis Exercises earlier this month, addressing real-world problems for a variety of national and international clients...
Statistics Professor Xiao-Li Meng says that his Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 16, “Real Life Statistics: Your Chance at Happiness (Or Misery)” class, formerly Statistics 105, had always featured a series of speakers who connected the field to various real-world applications, like law or romance. But this year, the Gen Ed office sponsored all the speaker fees and publicized the talks widely, dramatically increasing the turnout for each event...
This spring, a paper on stem cell research by Paul E. Schied ’13 was awarded the Conant Prize by the Gen Ed office for its interdisciplinary nature and emphasis on real-world applications...
...study, Zhong and his colleagues took a subtler approach, but one that's likely to have more real-world implications. In the first part of their three-part experiment, they recruited 84 students and divided them between a brightly lit room with 10 fluorescent bulbs burning and a dimmer room with only four bulbs. The subjects were each given a brown envelope with $10 in singles and coins as well as an empty white envelope. They were all then told they had five minutes to complete a simple mathematical task, looking for pairs of numbers that added...
...Real-World Economics Review Blog has taken two economic blogosphere truths to heart: polls are fun, and fruitlessly blaming people for messing up the economy is even more so. They’ve opened online voting for the Dynamite Prize in Economics, which is to be awarded to the three economists with the heaviest involvement in “blowing up” the economy. True to form, several Harvard minds are at the top of the list...