Alex Sutherland

Oooh Elvana at Corn Ex.

State of Florida's new mandate for public college Intro Sociology curriculum:

"The following should not be included in any course content...

"Discussions arguing a causal association between institutional sexism and unequal outcomes between men and women"

Indoctrination, not education nor science

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Easy. No. Because pi is 3.14(etc)

Another paper for frustrated methods nerds to put on the syllabus before their students' advisors strongarm them into ignoring it

2) there's been a wave of pop-up institutions that take oil and sell it, which makes figuring it all out quite taxing. Turns out, most of them are sharing this email server. And: if you line them up, you can see the strategy of setting up and disposing of companies in real time.

I give it 6m before something like that is published there or PNAS if it hasn't already!

Oof. Yes, GDP of small country indeed.

And also "don't look at all the work you've previously funded with interaction effects because it's probably underpowered. Oh and all those follow on grants arising from those underpowered effects. Oh, and policy briefings you've celebrated as impact off the back of those 'effects'. Soz."

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It's not really news but useful to have the signal boosted!

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/11/09/y...

Paper on statistical power necessary for interaction effects
doi.org/10.1177/2515...

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Email blunder exposes $90bn Russian oil smuggling ring Apparent network of companies using same server includes little-known group that has become country’s largest oil exporter

one of the world's largest smuggling networks has accidentally exposed itself because of a stupid e-mail configuration blunder, which has revealed around 50 apparently unconnected companies are all sharing back-office functions: www.ft.com/content/4310...

Make utilities not for profit, pay CEOs more but no bonuses unless very, very good years or if eg reinvestment and maintenance targets are hit.

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Every time I think about the idea of an "emergency" podcast

La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Do y'all know of any RCTs (or other randomized experiments) with an interesting nominal* outcome?

*In this case, I'm not including binary or ordinal outcomes as "nominal." Rather, here I'm looking for 3+ unordered categories.

The Big 5 test is about twice as accurate as the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator for predicting life outcomes, placing the usefulness of the MBTI test halfway between science and astrology.

Any psychologist will tell you, the Meyers-Briggs is mostly bullshit.
powerofusnewsletter.com/p/why-are-we...

Given Bluesky folk are obsessed with transport surely one of you is the right person to be the lead non exec at the Department for Transport?
apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9164

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Didn't help that the gif broke!

Was supposed to be....

No one: What the world needs right now is "emergency" podcasts about a 66 yo man being arrested.

Podcasters going to record:

You need to hear the goal call in Inuktitut.

Thank you for all the support and reposts!

We've gotten a steady stream of inquiries and submissions for this competition, but also some ANXIETY that the window will close before people have a chance to submit.

We're nowhere near that! We'll update on here when we've allocated 50% of the capacity.

We value it SO SO MUCH. Much value.

Cluster-****ing algorithms

I just default to "find me one cluster". Works every time!

Enjoyable. I am a new starter with Claude and genuinely think for teaching alone it'll be an incredible tool, but also proving V useful for some specific research tasks that chatgpt just couldn't do.

Misconduct in public office | Institute for Government What happens if someone holding public office is alleged to have abused their power?

What is “misconduct in public office”?
An “explainer”
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/misond...

Here it is, my magnum opus: an analysis of what’s wrong with the UK’s approach to fiscal policy (under this and previous governments), and a proposal for what an alternative to pass-fail fiscal rules could look like.

I’ll follow up with a longer thread later.