Andy Charlwood

This study clearly has limitations with measurement and inference but I’m sceptical that a study would necessarily produce better data. Getting people to complete surveys is hard and assumptions that non response is random seem optimistic

I’m curious as to why you think a study would be superior? Getting good data is really hard. Non-response bias, social desirability bias

Repeat please *disregards rules of engagement and shoots down Russian plane*

Two very good boys?

Quite possibly one of the best presentations on how to conduct research. It is by Peter WG Tennant from the University of Leeds, UK and focusses on modern causal inference methods.

More on it here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I am not in the emailing Harry Cole demographic but it’s big news for my teenager who was v familiar with Kirk from TikTok

Do you have a crew cut and are you wearing trainers?

I read Wolf Hall on kindle and enjoyed it so much I decided to get the next one in hardback so I’d have the physical artefact. The problem is it is literally too big to read comfortably and I’ve never read it. Should’ve been a 9 book series not a trilogy

Advancement has been in the UKRI scoring criteria for scoring grant applications for as long as I can remember

It’s a great piece of writing; it makes me feel an enormous sense of relief that I’m too old and settled to have to go to bars and try to bond with potential significant others over shared passions!

Their parents were also pre-f*cked up by their fathers being killed or having shocking PTSD and dodgy lungs from the Great War (both my parents maternal grandfathers were killed)

Can't believe ChatGPT 5 is continuing 4's habit of offering to make spreadsheets that it doesn't actually make. Comical!

Invited by the Immortal 11

Which of them lost confidence in the other?

As someone from down south who is an economic migrant to God’s Own Country, you and Jack must have more brass than sense

I wonder what she thinks theoretical physics involves?

I was introduced to soda stream by the most middle class family on our road (Dad a PhD crop scientist at a research institute, only detached house in a street of small semi-detacheds) so I am not convinced soda stream is that class coded. They appealed to middle class frugality

I’ve just finished watching it. I won’t ruin the ending for you. Typically powerful acting performance from Paddy Considine….

Isn’t it perhaps more about how influential contemporaries saw him and wrote about him in their diaries and memoirs? Neither social democratic or union right trusted him and left saw him as something of a sell out?

We always used to use PFO (pulled and ****ed off) eg, haven’t seen Ian for a while, is he ok? Yeah, he PFO’d

No that wasn’t what I meant but I don’t disagree with your point

I’m not sure that’s the way a lot of people think about it. I.e they don’t think in terms of the trade offs involved (see also immigration where lots of people have convinced themselves immigration is a net cost to taxpayers when all the evidence is to the contrary)

Really? I think there are perhaps quite a lot of people who think those who don’t pay their “fair share“ shouldn’t live here

I’m not sure this is that surprising, fairness matters to people a lot and being able to opt out of taxes because you are rich is obviously unfair?

This is a really good point. Leeds has 3 variants of number 7 bus. 2 go near me, 1 doesn’t. I’ve never managed to decode which is which (online timetable not sufficiently detailed, no maps) so I never use them

WWII was won by people who drunk martinis for lunch. How though?

I wonder how it would improve if prompted to draw on materials from the wider module reading list. I found as soon as I referred it to specific sources from mine it improved a lot

Deep research would be able to do this I think. The student could also feed Deep Research the archival sources and it would answer your question based on them. Deep Research also has potential to be a good crammer tutor so not sure exams are really the answer for discursive subjects

My Dad’s comment on my doctoral thesis: you took 6 years to find that out? I could have told you that

What they said later isn’t my recollection of what they were saying at the time several beers deep at mid-90s union conferences 🤷