Posts by Keith Ng
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OnPoint: Re: Education, in reply to Peter Green,
The real problem here is confounding variables.
Agreed.
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OnPoint: Pants != Journalism, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Is a deputy registrar not a registrar?
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to David Cormack,
So just to play devil's advocate, if you were to make the allowance only for undergrad, you would potentially disincentivise people from doing tertiary study, but once they were there they wouldn't be disincentivised from doing post-grad if EVERYONE had to get a loan. Or a scholarship?
They would still be disincentivised, but they would be *less* disincentivised.
More formally, if a person was offered $1 when another person was offered $5, they would see that $1 as a worse deal than if both were offered $1.
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Yes. So the question is a) whether stacking another few years of living costs onto student loans will cause more post-grads to skip the country and default on their loans, and b) whether potential post-grads will be turned away because of the lack of an allowance.
Argument for b comes from behavioural economics: Subsidising some, but not others makes the unsubsidised choice appear worse than if none were subsidised at all.
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OnPoint: Peek-a-boo, I can't recall…, in reply to Jolisa,
(Do not, repeat, do not look up Crisco on urban dictionary. Hey, I told you not to).
I am of the Santorum generation. Crisco barely registers as NSFW.
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OnPoint: Peek-a-boo, I can't recall…, in reply to Andrew E,
The cost-benefit calculation taking place on the 9th floor of a building in Wellington is likely to be coming down on the side of cost quite soon, I'd say.
Maybe it's a Sunk Cost Fallacy thing. "FFS, we smeared ourselves with so much shit to get Banks in here, we can't just waste it..."
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Thanks!
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Also, just looked up a few: The Financial Review numbers don't match with the Treasury numbers and neither match with the directly OIAed numbers. "Don't match" as in they look like completely different numbers.
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OnPoint: Some of My Best Friends are Consultants, in reply to papango,
Thanks!
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OnPoint: Some of My Best Friends are Consultants, in reply to papango,
Select committees ask departments for information about contractors and consultants. How many and total cost is required for every department's yearly financial review. Those numbers exist.
Little help?
I've been going through Select Committee reports on Financial Reviews and evidence submitted to them, but haven't found anything. Could you point me in the right direction?