Social Media for Selection? Validity and Adverse Impact Potential of a Facebook-Based Assessment. Chad H. Van Iddekinge, Florida State University; Stephen E. Lanivich, Old Dominion University; Philip L. Roth, Clemson University; Elliott Junco, Accenture. Journal of Management published online 16 December 2013, DOI: 10.1177/0149206313515524. “Recent reports suggest that an increasing number of organizations are using information from social media platforms such as Facebook.com to screen job applicants. Unfortunately,… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2014
Does high public debt consistently stifle economic growth?
Does high public debt consistently stifle economic growth? A critique of Reinhart and Rogoff. Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash and Robert Pollin. Camb. J. Econ. (2013)doi: 10.1093/cje/bet075 First published online:December 24, 2013 “We replicate Reinhart and Rogoff (2010A and 2010B) and find that selective exclusion of available data, coding errors and inappropriate weighting of summary statistics lead to serious miscalculations that inaccurately represent the relationship between… Continue Reading
2014 State of the Legal Market
“Georgetown University Law Center and Peer Monitor issued their 2014 Report on the State of the Legal Market. The report highlights recent trends in the legal market, as well as factors that will likely impact the market in 2014 and beyond. The report warns that unless law firms re-examine their traditional business models and embrace change in… Continue Reading
Dodd-Frank Progress Report – January 2014
Dodd-Frank Progress Report Generated using the Davis Polk Regulatory Tracker™ January 2014 “In Brief: December 2013 36 Requirements Met, 1 Proposed. The CFTC, FDIC, Federal Reserve, OCC and SEC released final regulations implementing the Volcker Rule. The Federal Reserve released a proposed rule on extensions of credit by Federal Reserve Banks. 1 Study. The FIO issued a study… Continue Reading
Irreplaceable Canadian historic documents destroyed before promised digitized copies made
Via Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow – Canadian libricide: Tories torch and dump centuries of priceless, irreplaceable environmental archives “Back in 2012, when Canada’s Harper government announced that it would close down national archive sites around the country, they promised that anything that was discarded or sold would be digitized first. But only an insignificant fraction of the archives got… Continue Reading
Refuge – 18 stories from the Syrian Exodus
“In October, Washington Post photographer Linda Davidson and I set off for Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon to report on the Syrian refugee crisis, one of the largest forced migrations of people since World War II. Our goal was to document the size and complexity of the crisis, showing its effects on the lives of individual… Continue Reading
Federal Appeals Court Rules that Legal Policy Memos Can Be Withheld From the Publi
“The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has ruled that the FBI may withhold a memo prepared by the Office of Legal Counsel concerning the law governing “exigent letter” requests to telephone companies for call records. The decision affirmed an earlier opinion that the memo was privileged advice, and exempt from disclosure under the Freedom information Act. The… Continue Reading
LA Times – Meager Sierra snowpack is way below average
By Bettina Boxall: “The signs aren’t good when the chief of California’s snow survey has to walk over bare ground to take a snowpack measurement in the Sierra Nevada, as Frank Gehrke did Friday near Echo Summit. Manual and electronic readings up and down the range placed the statewide snowpack at 20% of normal for this… Continue Reading
NYT – How Do E-Books Change the Reading Experience?
Print or e-books? By MOHSIN HAMID / In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude – and ANNA HOLMES / Who or what we choose to read can be as telling as the clothes we wear, and an e-book feels like a detail withheld, a… Continue Reading
Speech by Chairman Bernanke on the Federal Reserve: looking back, looking forward
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 3, 2014 – The Federal Reserve: Looking Back, Looking Forward “In less than a month my term as Fed Chairman will end. Needless to say, my tenure has been eventful–for the Federal Reserve, for the country, and for me personally. I thought… Continue Reading
Job-Related Education, Training, and Other Resources
“As a way to help expand your professional opportunities, check out job-related education and training information on CareerOneStop. You’ll find resources on certifications, apprenticeships, financial aid, and more. Visit USA.gov’s Finding a Job to search for jobs, get resume and interview tips, and avoid job scams.” Continue Reading
CFPB launches participatory e-gov applications developed by visiting scholars and in-house coders
Via Joseph Marks at NextGov, writing about new iterations in government interactions with consumers: “The eRegulagions site got support from some of the 30 CFPB design and technology fellows participating in a two year program for tech professionals to build tools that help regulated companies comply with the laws CFPB enforces and to use data… Continue Reading
