#Biases

As the civ-mil world is actively (and rightly!) discussing the role of retired generals in the political space, I’m finishing up a piece that explores the need for active duty
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Ok all, this new paper in @NatureComms really has me sad/confused/angry https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19723-8#MOESM1A Thread 1/ The authors analyze an insanely large body of scientific papers from across disciplines to look at
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Out in PNAS: "The effects of school closures on SARS-CoV-2 among parents and teachers". On March 18, 2020, upper secondary schools in Sweden moved online while schools for younger students
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Bitcoin naturally will accrue with the intelligent and the virtuous.And that is a good thing for society. First of all you need to be reasonably intelligent and a well-read person
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Just say "White people."The people upset about this proposal don't factor in the racial biases of the student loan industry or how they benefit. Here's why they should be happy.A
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1/ Estimating the infection fatality risk (IFR) of #SARSCoV2 is hard.Our estimates from Spain's #ENECOVID (just published):Men: 1.1% to 1.4%Women: 0.58% to 0.77%After age 80Men: 12% to 16%Women: 4.6% to
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thinking a lot about the increased discourse about the rise in anti-asian sentiment in this country and i have some things to say first, yes we know, we’ve been
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CW sexual violence, rapeI’ve spent much of my life and career navigating the myth of “gray rape.” The fact is, ANY unwanted sexual experience can cause trauma—even when it’s not
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Good to see #LongCovid getting more attention, but wow, do I see some alarming medical field biases in this article. (Not remotely @guardian’s fault, to be clear). Thread time! (1/13)https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/05/many-lo
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HadCRUT5 is out. You can find the paper and data here.https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcrut5/ Sevenish reasons why you - a discerning scientist - might want to use HadCRUT5. THREAD 1: HadCRUT5 is based
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Besties, like for an indirect I think you never interacted with me but anyways we have the same biases, you're cool and you got taste bestie ily Ur
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Congratulations to @TheEconomist and @tcross81 on a fantastic survey on #AI and its limitations this week: https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2020/06/11/an-understanding-of-ais-limitations-is-starting-to-sink-in. There is a fund
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Calling all therapists! PSA: You are responsible for providing culturally-relevant treatment to your clients. What does this look like?A thread...1/15 Overall, this involves *explicitly* addressing clinician-client cultural differences, dis
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Person: "We can't stop Critical Social Justice because there's no alternative!"Me: Yes there is. Universal liberalism. It worked before and still works. Somehow, everybody forgot that. The same universal liberalism
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No one ....Me: Ok, I’ll spend my bank holiday Sunday force-fitting dated memes to behavio(u)ral science.Let’s begin with some well-known theory, biases, or experiments as memes. #EconTwitter(1/X) First up: Distracted
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The @OttawaCitizen 2020 Grads feature starts with “we invited Ottawa students to share their grad fashions, photos, messages and speeches with the city.” I’m curious what this invitation looked like.
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