Archive for October, 2008

If we measure the quality of a newspaper by the wackiness of the letters sent to its editors, the Financial Times would probably come on top. Recently Mr Mike Standing and Mr Hanno Ronte wrote to suggest a way of preventing future financial crises — test new financial products like we test new drugs:
“Sir, The [...]

The Author Function

The Test Society blog is catching up on some social-scientific classics. As a result, the blog shall now (i.e. may soon) be temporally revived as, well, a collective assemblage.
As a recently disclosed very important historical document puts it:
“Stay tuned to this wavelength, but switch your radios off now to save your batteries until we come [...]