Tagged: Keith Ng

Implausible counterfactuals - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Sep 15, 2014 •

• inequality,
• Keith Ng

Imagine that Winston Peters had a more clever web team and came up with a nifty infographic. The infographic asked you to input your race. Then it showed how many more jobs each race got in New Zealand in the period 1980 to present. If you'd selected "Asian" at the start, the infographic would tell you that your group got … Read More

Science funding down under – a tale of opposites - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • May 16, 2014 •

• Allan Wilson Centre,
• Australia,
• budget,
• Centres of Research Excellence,
• CoREs,
• Funding,
• Gravida,
• Keith Ng,
• Medical Research Future Fund,
• Peter Gluckman,
• Science,
• Steven Joyce,
• Tertiary Education Commission

This week has seen budget announcements from both Australia and New Zealand and it is a story of opposites when it comes to science funding. The fabulous Keith Ng (@keith_ng) has produced a great dynamic infographic if you want to see where New Zealand is going to be spending it’s money and how this … Read More