A 3-part post on the model of the 3-chapter dissertation.

1. When people post a co-written paper to their papers page, most people note up front the existence of co-authors. But I’ve noticed two occasions in recent days where the link to a co-written paper did not include any such notice, so it appeared the papers were the sole property of the owner of the website on which they were linked. In one case it wasn’t immediately clear from looking at the PDF that the paper was co-authored. I think this is a very bad practice. Co-authored papers should be labelled as such wherever they are referenced, and certainly in front of any link to them. The vast bulk of pages I look at follow this principle, so I was a little shocked to see it broken twice in a few days.

2. The comments thread on the decision theory post immediately below has been really interesting. If you haven’t read it, do so. And keep the good comments coming.

3. GO PATS! Or, as Boston Dirt Dog said, “Eskimo Up!”