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		<title>2012 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 25,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 6 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expbook.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5895285&#038;post=8999&#038;subd=expbook&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What do you look for (part two)?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having expounded in my previous post what kind of person I look for, when serving on the search committee for a tenure-track hire, now it is time to list the criteria that I adopt to try and spot my ideal candidate, as I go through application packages (APs). I am going to state upfront that, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expbook.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5895285&#038;post=8955&#038;subd=expbook&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What do you look for (part one) ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 16:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a faculty member in a university physics department, who finds himself periodically involved in faculty searches and hires. How do I evaluate the curriculum vitae of an applicant for a tenure-track position? What do I look for, and what are the red flags? Does it really boil down to counting (first-authored) articles, impact [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expbook.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5895285&#038;post=8871&#038;subd=expbook&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Binomial distributions and multiple choice tests</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers of my blog know that I generally regard multiple choice tests (MCTs) as an adequate tool to assess student knowledge of, and proficiency with, a given set of topics. I have written about this subject here and here. No, I do not think that MCTs are perfect, nor do I deem them necessarily the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expbook.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5895285&#038;post=8832&#038;subd=expbook&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Docs: one-year review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago, my institution made the campus-wide transition to Google electronic mail. Concurrently, Google&#8217;s suite of office applications known as Google Docs also became available, as it comes essentially integrated with electronic mail. It includes word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software, among other things. I started using the word processor and spreadsheet right away; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expbook.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5895285&#038;post=8803&#038;subd=expbook&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s really obsessed with Impact Factor ?</title>
		<link>http://expbook.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/whos-really-obsessed-with-impact-factor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What brings more prestige to a scientist, an article which receives hundreds of citations, even if published on a relatively minor, or even obscure journal, or one that is published on a high profile, glamorous publication with a high Impact Factor (IF), but whose citation record is modest ? Most scientists, I believe, would answer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expbook.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5895285&#038;post=8778&#038;subd=expbook&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In praise of failure</title>
		<link>http://expbook.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/in-praise-of-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In 2004, Kim and Chan (KC) carried out torsional oscillator (TO) measurements of solid helium conﬁned in porous Vycor glass and found an abrupt drop in the resonant period below 200 mK. The period drop was interpreted as probable experimental evidence of nonclassical rotational inertia (NCRI). This experiment sparked considerable activities in the studies of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expbook.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5895285&#038;post=8730&#038;subd=expbook&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain Lion and stuff</title>
		<link>http://expbook.wordpress.com/2012/08/19/mountain-lion-and-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between work and home I own eight Apple computers &#8212; four iMacs, two MacBook Air, two Mac Pro. So, like any respectable user, I promptly upgraded the operating system to the new version, OS 10.8 (aka Mountain Lion), which has now been available for a few weeks. Around this time last year, its predecessor Lion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expbook.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5895285&#038;post=8693&#038;subd=expbook&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On confirmation bias</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doug Natelson has done an outstanding job at debunking a ridiculous charge of confirmation bias allegedly affecting a recent study of climate change. Such a charge is put forth in an article published in the popular press (on a very prominent venue). While ostensibly aimed at educating the general public about some aspects of how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expbook.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5895285&#038;post=8626&#038;subd=expbook&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Online notes</title>
		<link>http://expbook.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/online-notes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2012 12:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do students who take courses with me (but colleagues tell me of similar experiences) routinely insist that I scan and post online my very own notes, the hard-to-read, disorganized and sketchy gibberish that I use for lecturing, whereas if I post a neatly put together summary of the basic concepts and formulae &#8212; typically [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expbook.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5895285&#038;post=8582&#038;subd=expbook&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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