A La Carte (1/16)

  • Tim Challies
  • 01/16/08
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Wednesday January 16, 2008The True Meaning of Headship
The CBMW blog is beginning a series dealing with headship and the word “kephale.” If you’ve ever discussed issues of headship you know this question always arises!
Cheaters!
It’s not just the students who cheat anymore. Now the schools are cheating too.
John Divito’s Review
John Divito recently posted a review of my book.
McDating
An article at Christianity Today discusses the positives and negatives of internet dating.

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a comment from GUNNY HARTMAN • 01/16 @ 4:03pm
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I think you’d really enjoy and appreciate the book Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything.

You can (likely) get it from your local library, but one of the things it covers is how & why people cheat, including teachers to help their students do better on standardized tests. And they DO do that. It also speaks to how they are caught.

I really enjoyed the book because (1) it addresses the type of questions I ask and (2) it’s a bit of a sociological study.

This book, then, has been written from a very specific worldview, based on a few fundamental ideas:

* Incentives are the cornerstone of modern life.* The conventional wisdom is often wrong.* Dramatic effects often have distant, even subtle, causes.* “Experts”—from criminologists to real-estate agents—use their informational advantage to serve their own agenda.* Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so. (pp.13-14)

One other quick hit: “Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work—whereas economics represents how it actually does work.” (p.13)

Okay, commercial over.

Soli Deo gloria,Gunny