Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-27-2010

[andrewducker]

• How one woman can cause economic boom or bust - and why a change in employment of 0.1% is meaningless
  (tags: statistics jobs analysis economy)
• Average intelligence predicts atheism rates across 137 nations
  (tags: religion intelligence atheism)
• Lake Agassiz - the giant prehistoric lake
  Why had I never heard of this?
  (tags: geography history map)
• Why bonuses and performance pay are a bad idea
  I'd link directly to the FT article, but I've had my total allocation of articles for the month.
  (tags: reward business finance)
• The Traceability of an Anonymous Online Comment (very, very high)
  (tags: privacy anonymity freespeech internet surveillance)
• BBC to re-create the sinking of Atlantis a la 300
  (tags: atlantis history bbc)
• Apparently Dr Who is kinky...
  (tags: DrWho EpicFail)
• Air stewardess revealed as part time porn star, keeps job. Huzzah!
  (tags: porn feminism liberty)
• Demonstrating web security - and just how easy it is to hack many systems.
  (tags: security database hacking sql sqlinjection)
• January Was Hottest Ever
  (tags: weather climate climatechange)
• "Mad Libs" Style Form is filled in up to 40% more often than normal webform.
  (tags: forms usability ui webdesign design web)
• How the normalising of homosexuality affected one person's Valentine's Day
  (tags: cute valentines_day homosexuality society)

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Check out Hard Facts, Half Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management, which has rather a lot about the usually destructive effects of performance bonuses, and more generally, about the damage done by management which is trying to prove that it is and should be in charge.

[endless-psych.livejournal.com]

Bookmarked for the future: looks very interesting.

I suspect bonuses don't so much predict or encourage high performance as they do boom and bust high risk schemes that "mimic" high performance but can have huge consequences.

Will see what the book says.