@markfabian.bsky.social
Ass-Prof of Public Policy at Warwick. Work mostly on wellbeing from an interdisciplinary perspective. Interested in *everything*. Run ePODstemology: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1763534/episodes
I am so proud of this big, weird book - if you have kids in your life (or just anyone who likes good comics) I would be super grateful if you preordered this. I just really want to make another one!
it's Lynchian not just in its form but also in its profound underlying conviction that even though the unbelievable violence people do to each other fractures our lives and causes unending torment it somehow -- by some miracle -- narrowly fails to entirely contaminate the world
With Australian games media on its knees, a new magazine is trying to keep a scene alive:
aftermath.site/australian-vid...
It would be nice if people remembered this piece of wisdom from the greatest economics tweet in history (and the one I am most insanely jealous of not having written, especially because it was a reply to me).
It’s a genuine lack of civic responsibility. I don’t want to be the guy who blames Thatcher for everything but I feel that forty years of Thatcherite disengagement from civil society, we are all a bunch of individuals married to a victim complex whenever you lose brings you this behaviour.
100% my experience and it gets worse as the boys get older until reversing trend again from about 35.
I think the artificial order of randomised control trials has replaced the artificial order of rational choice theory for the current generation of economists.
There's still the same desire to reify the model over reality. The same refusal to acknowledge anything that can't be fit into the model.
What is this? I just looked it up. The actual text is written quite well. The abstract is weird poop. Like OK maybe the main text is AI and the abstract is the author, but even then it's weird. Like a satire.
Of course Scientific Reports basically doesn't need to exist.
Thanks very much!
Will this be recorded anywhere? I'm very interested but at a different workshop that day.
Thanks
I know of one working paper from Benjamin et al. that looks at some common economic covariats like employment. I'll see if I can dig it out after I finish teaching.
But I couldn't compare this slow temporal process to a shock like getting diagnosed with a chronic genetic condition or taking a heroic dose of magic mushrooms.
We can barely interrogate this stuff so I think we are from looking at drivers systematically.
Thanks.
I honestly don't know. For health I think Schwartz and her collaborators are much more authoritative because they've done so much quant and in depth qual work.
We did get the sense that as people age they change the way they evaluate their life...
Most certainly - a few decades of response shift studies on this:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
I am hugely in favour of patient self report & taking subjects seriously rather than looking for crude objective measures. But we shouldn't do so naively.
Life comes at you fast is honestly one of the most profound aphorisms.
New episode of ePODstemology!
Halima Jibril from the Warwick Business School joins us to discuss the innovation ecosystem.
One of my main learnings: Innovation requires a lot of tenuously networked physical infrastructure!
www.buzzsprout.com/1763534/epis...
He's 77!!!
I know Diddy is cancelled but this scene was #facts:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvqL...
All large Euro conferences should be in the Mediterranean or East. Why hold something in Geneva at 3x the cost of e.g. Tallinn when everyone is going to be flying there anyway?
Also please don't have a 4 day conf without day rates - I don't want to pay £650 to do a 15 min presentation!
I enjoyed this but:
"And if there’s one thing economist don’t do, is that they don’t take things on faith.".
Hahahahahahaa WTF? Is this for real?
Every model starts with "assume that...". The external validity of most RCTs is a matter of faith. So is the whole evidence aggregation religion.
Subtract 30, divide by 2 is a decent approximation to converting from degrees Farenheit to degrees Celsius across ambient temperatures.
There's a discussion on my TL about whether you'd expect studies from the 90s to replicate in the 20s given that the situational context has changed, and it feels like everyone involved is *so* close to getting it but the hegemony of experimental methods in US social psych is proving a mental block.
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
Reminds me of a great line in William Waldegrave's memoir:
"[Edward] Heath would throw every backbencher request for an honour into the waste-paper basket, and another monetarist would be born."
New post on how to build the solidarity nation.
buff.ly/gRkxGAw
The absolute unimpeachable 100% correct-all-the-time rule is that every single you see one of these people grouching about enviros opposing renewables, the article will somewhere reveal that IT IS NOT REALLY ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS OR ENVIRONMENTALISTS but standard pissed neighbours
archive.ph/4yXmw
