Anne Z.

"The University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study (HRS) surveys more than 22,000 Americans over the age of 50 every two years. Supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA U01AG009740) and the Social Security Administration, the HRS is a large-scale longitudinal project that studies the labor force participation and health transitions that individuals undergo toward the end of their work lives and in the years that follow. "

"A good paper is not a travelogue of your search process. We don’t care how you came to figure out the right answer. We don’t care about the hundreds of things you tried that did not work. Save it for your memoirs."

"A dissertation should be normal science that certifies your competency. Save the big thoughts in a file, and get finished! Write an opus when you are a professor, and are being paid for it. Meanwhile, negotiate the smallest useful chunk of the Big Project with your dissertation advisers, and do that single piece of research."

"We propose a hierarchical analysis that automatically gives the correct ANOVA comparisons even in complex scenarios."

"Shamay-Tsoory says that while creativity is likely generated in the right side of the brain it may be suppressed by language processing on the left. "[Language] regions may compete with the right hemisphere's ability to produce creative ideas," she says. This would explain why, when these language areas are damaged, originality seems to increase."

"Teachers whose students described them as skillful at maintaining classroom order, at focusing their instruction and at helping their charges learn from their mistakes are often the same teachers whose students learn the most in the course of a year, as measured by gains on standardized test scores, according to a progress report on the research."

On declining productivity in higher education, with some proposed solutions.

"Zero to low US Treasury rates have been baked into asset prices around the world. Bond yields have come down. Investors, earning next to nothing in short term instruments, have been forced to reach for risk. In Asia, that has meant buying real estate. If US rates trend upwards, asset valuations will require recalculation – downwards. The Bernanke bubbles will deflate."

"Robert Meade’s research has shown that people are happier at work when they feel they are making measure progress against understood goals. If people share their goals with others in an open fashion, and operate in a context where progress against tasks leads to shared feedback or other incentives, then they perceive time as passing more quickly AND are happier."