@MacLennanMike1
@kdrum
@neilsinhababu
@jessesingal
@jonathanchait
That is a *gross* mischaracterization of Chait and Singal. Either you have never read a single word they have written on this or you are just lying to feel good about your side. You are exactly the problem Drum is talking about.
@HelenBranswell
We need much better messaging. And clear bipartisan messaging on the importance of masks. Far too many people still don't get it (in large part due to the problematic initial messaging). Honestly, there should be frequent PSA's on this and regular news stories.
@CentristStacy
This is actually pretty typical for NYT articles on transgender issues. Comments are dominated by variations of "I'm a good liberal, but this stuff is nuts" (which is where I'd put myself). NYT commenters *far* more sane than liberal twitter.
This is good news. It was never worth taking at face value public opinion before an approved vaccine. And opinion may still evolve based on side effects and how distribution goes. People are really bad at predicting their future behavior in survey questions.
BREAKING: More than eight in 10 Americans say they would receive the coronavirus vaccine, with 40% saying they would take it as soon as it’s available to them and 44% saying they would wait a bit before getting it, according to new
@ABC
News/Ipsos poll.
@nathankw
Great thread. As a professional social scientist who studies gender (and politics), this is just *awful* social science. As an extreme case of drawing conclusions well beyond what the data supports as I have seen.
@JohnHMcWhorter
I am moderately concerned as teaching about American politics I inherently cover race and gender regularly. I'm a good, standard, American liberal, strongly for race and gender equality, but I also prize empirical evidence and critical thinking-- that's not always popular
@jessesingal
Best evidence is that it's not been so much "shy" Trump voters but simply that "low system trust" is both correlated with supporting Trump and with not taking polls (far more than with any candidate in the past).
Thinking about this as I await a $90 reimbursement for buying pizza for a group of students that has probably used up hundreds of dollars of administrative employee time.
Why do universities cost so much? One piece of evidence is that there's twenty layers of bullshit to get reimbursed for a cab ride. Higher ed bureaucracy is worse than the Pentagon's. That's a hint.
Billions were allocated to schools, including to improve air quality — against viruses, allergens, fire smoke and high CO2.
Salespeople descended.
Many schools overpaid for inferior products.
Worse, many bought potentially harmful devices.
Gift link:
Once again, nobody does it better than
@dr_kkjetelina
in very clearly breaking down the key issues. I especially liked the explanation of trying to time the booster, as I've been thinking about.
@DavidAFrench
@TheAtlantic
Wow-- I certainly don't always agree with French, but generally respect his reasoning. This is just *really* weak tea. To completely elide the incredibly coercive power of the coach role is a complete intellectual cop-out. He's *leading* players in prayer.
@thomaschattwill
1) Agreed. Rude and inappropriate. 2) That said, I don't love Jefferson (and Overbey) jumping to the assumption that Baker saves rude and inappropriate emails for Black faculty. Maybe he does, but I'd like evidence before a claim like that.
@DanielleLangWa
@ruthbenghiat
I’ve known stutterers. That’s an absurd explanation. And as the parent and brother of genuinely disabled persons, I find this use of “ableism” offensive. Oh and I think Biden has been an excellent president, but his time is up.
Great to have
@dr_kkjetelina
back at it. Terrific summary of the latest from Denmark and what to make of BA2. (And nice to read something not about Ukraine this morning)
Remembering the victims of the Raleigh mass shooting.
Nicole Conners, seen with her husband.
Susan Karnatz, “the kindest person.”
Mary Marshall, 2 weeks away from her wedding.
Officer Gabriel Torres, leaves behind a 2-year-old daughter.
16-year-old James Thompson.
@WRAL
@BrendanRMarks
I'm sure there's an explanation, but I've never read one for why we don't just have football only conferences and then everything else can be sensible and geographically reasonable.
Short answer: we need more immigration. Maybe not a billion Americans, but
@mattyglesias
is on the right path. (I thought One Billion Americans was great, by the way).
@GidMK
OMG-- thanks so much for this! I was literally waiting for your take. My initial read was that they were *way* overselling the results and that whole "destroys DNA" is just so clickbait-y.
@jeremychrysler
@m_millsey
@MTV
I've been on a huge R.E.M. kick since reading this. Had kind of forgotten just how much I used to love them and how great they are.
@adamdavidson
@conor64
Long-time Adam Davidson fan, here, but... come on. Saying you would quit the most prestigious news org in the country because you disagreed with an editorial *is* a big thing. This ain't quitting Arby's.
*Really* want to experience Dune for the first time on a big screen, but also, feel like there's this little devil on my shoulder..."it's just sitting there on HBO Max"
@tbonier
@we_are_toast
@Nate_Cohn
Anecdote, because that's what I'm here for as a quantitative political scientist :-), but, my own 18-year-old son, is among these figures and just registered Unaffiliated and would never vote R. It's uncool to like D's, even for very liberal kids.
What makes someone rich or poor? Most Republicans link a person’s financial standing to their own hard work – or the lack of it. Most Democrats say that whether someone is rich or poor is more attributable to circumstances beyond their control.
@mtnance
@ProfEmilyOster
Thank you for this. I had forgotten that it was totally excusable to be nasty to people on twitter for writing epidemiological takes one disagrees with. And that being white, female, and an Ivy leage prof means it doesn't suck to be zealously and unfairly attacked.
I always love
@brianbeutler
's weekly take, but this on the importance of turning paid media into earned media (and how the Democrats are bad at it) is sooo good.
@shadihamid
"censor" is a pretty strong word for "[do] more to call out misinformation and disinformation." I'm a very first amendment guy and Rogan gets to speak, but combatting clear misinformation is *not* censorship.
New research:
Letting more foreign-born & educated physicians immigrate to the US ***does not*** crowd out US-trained doctors.
Boosting the supply side to give more people access to healthcare — huge win for America.
@SurvivalByBook
@emollick
Yes. Pretty much all the essays I read are for potential honors/scholarship students already admitted to NC State. This is actually what a good college essay looks like.
The advantage Dems opened this summer narrowed because voters now say crime and inflation are top issues. Did crime and inflation get worse since August? Or are voters responding to media, which in turn allowed itself to be manipulated by propaganda…
@HuffmanLabDU
@ApandaInTO
@kprather88
@DavidElfstrom
How did it not occur to me until just now that, obviously, my 5th grade daughter's science project just has to be on air quality and put our PM2.5/CO2 monitor to work?! (Hopefully, she will not object 🙂)
@admcrlsn
PPP is a Dem-firm, but it got it's partisan reputation because it used to delight in polls to embarrass Republicans (e.g., polling them on opposition to interracial marriage or desire to bomb Agrabah) not because of unrealistic D-supporting polls.
@jessesingal
Can't say I ever read Pediatrics, but this research is social science and it's *awful* social science. The measurement issue is a huge problem, but, damn, talk about making conclusions well beyond what the data suggest.
JARED KUSHNER: "The notion of the federal stockpile was it's supposed to be our stockpile. It's not supposed to be states stockpiles that they then use."
So I had one of the worst customer experiences at a hotel last night at the
@Marriott
University Park in Salt Lake City. (Worse than
#APSAonFire
). A few tweets on what happened, but first a video of how my evening went:
@benryanwriter
Love this! As an academic and "expert" on various topics, I question any academic who cannot handle appropriate skepticism. I wish I faced it more when I'm interviewed (and I love it when I do-- I love talking to reporters who think deeply about issues).
@fotini901
@MacLennanMike1
@kdrum
@neilsinhababu
@jessesingal
@jonathanchait
Nice Motte and Bailey move there! Now I'll challenge you to show me where they are promoting the views of those who believe that "transness is false." As if Singal and Chait, etc., are the problem and not the Republican politicians passing these laws they both disagree with.
6-Year-Old Walks Home from School by Self
Somehow this is a NEWS STORY?
How LITTLE do we trust KIDS or other HUMANS that it is a "miracle" this kid survived an unplanned half mile walk home???
I have reached the point in my armchair epidemiology where I enjoy reading twitter disputes between droplet folks and aerosol folks (the aerosol people have completely won me over).
@angie_rasmussen
I beg to strongly differ. Guangzhou restaurant was a problem particle **because** it did not have good filters or ventilation. The attack rate could have been reduced to 1/5 or 1/10 by simple measures, just see
@jessesingal
This is an amazing explanation of complicated and important issues. Worthy of being taught in a graduate research methods class for any social science.
@COSDawg85
@jasongay
If you'd ever actually given "participation trophies" to a rec you team, you'd know there's not "no benefit." They make kids happy is a pretty big benefit in my book. Nobody is under the mistaken assumption it means "everybody is special" or that's why kids play.
@mattyglesias
I kind of wrote on this 20 years ago (and should update!) but a lot of "independence" is negative attitudes towards parties and polarization has led to even more reason to feel negative.
Plain English has rapidly become among my favorite podcasts.
@DKThomp
is so good and this conversation is spot-on. People are nowhere close to appreciating how much of a game-changer (on multiple dimensions) readily available medication abortions are.
Actually managed to get my 15-year old boosted today on his first day of eligibility-- hooray!! Now all Greene household members are boosted or recently vaccinated (in the case of my 11-year old).
Also, everybody in NJ gives reasons they like not pumping gas and how it doesn't affect prices, etc., but, fine, keep full service if people *really* want it and let other people pump their own gas. That's how things worked when I was a kid and it seemed fine.
Jared Kushner, the morning after we hit 1 million cases and more deaths than in the Vietnam War:
“We’re on the other side of the medical aspect of this. The federal government rose to the challenge, and this is a great success story.”
Taught two in-person classes today and my CO2 monitor didn't budge from 400ppm (that's outdoor level). Thanks to
@ncstate
for doing such a good job ventilating the hell out of my classrooms.
Pretty sure I got the Covid vaccine and not the placebo. Very unpleasant night of chills, fatigue, and headache. Or, my body is playing a hell of trick on me.
You're probably not familiar with qualified immunity (I wasn't until a year ago), but it really is just the worst. You should read this thread and read this article. For reals. And thanks
@ConLawWarrior
for enlightening me on this.
@JMitchellWSJ
@JHWeissmann
@_cingraham
Anecdotally, seems like handguns mass shootings result in lots of injuries and fewer deaths. AR-15 shootings just result in a ton of dead people. All else being equal, I'd argue fewer murdered people is a good thing.
Some newly-published research with Laurel Elder and Mary-Kate Lizotte. From 1992-2016: Women, especially college-educated became much more feminist. Also more polarization as much bigger shifts among Dems.
@angie_rasmussen
@BallouxFrancois
@RachelAlter007
Except her whole argument was about the individual risk to kids of serious disease, *not* how they contribute to population immunity. And you don't need a PhD in epidemiology to understand the studies saying these individual risks are very, very low.
One of my recent tells as to whether you are dealing with a person who actually takes public policy seriously is whether they favor more immigration. The benefits *so* outweigh the costs that pretty much all opposition is ultimately rooted in bigotry and/or ignorance.
@froomkin
@jessesingal
You may see FIRE that way, but this is not exactly an advisory board of Dan Bongino and Joe Rogan. Illiberal excesses are still illiberal, whether earnest or not.
There's an academic debate about just how important Gingrich was in changing the Republican Party in the 1990's. What cannot be debated is that Gingrich is one of the most malign figures in modern American history.
24 hours after we publish a paper that really shows why outdoor spaces are vastly safer than indoor spaces, our provincial response to a public health disaster is...to restrict access to outdoor spaces.
Was just offered $50(!) to take down a 1-star Amazon review of some earbuds where I had 2-pair die in less than a month. Makes me wonder how many other negative reviews are just bought off. (I'm leaving mine up).