Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Tuesday (Themed) Tweets -- Getting increasingly difficult to avoid the obvious comparisons

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Presented without comment. PA MAGA Gov nominee Doug Mastriano rally: “Put your right hand in the air … America will have a new birth of lib...
Monday, September 19, 2022

Abdication?

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This is Joseph. Do royal ascensions bring out bad takes? Here is one that I think is worth talking about: Should Charles abdicate at 75 year...
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Friday, September 16, 2022

There is no such thing as a poll of likely voters

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[Starting a sometimes meta thread on the current state of polling.] There are polls of the general population and polls of registered voters...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

This is definitely an interesting take

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This is Joseph. Parody, has gone here to die: Paywalled but you can read it here: When the yacht was commissioned in the 1950s, Her Majesty ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Ten years ago at the blog -- We were into self-selection before self-selection was cool

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Non-response has become a hot topic among political writers and data. I'm not entirely happy with some of the analyses we've been s...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Tuesday Twitter -- Dispatches

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If you've been trying to stay up to date on the war in Ukraine while not having to scroll past endless articles on Queen Elizabeth, Josh...
Monday, September 12, 2022

"Russia’s Military, Once Creaky, Is Modern and Lethal"

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Holy sh*t pic.twitter.com/8FBWbDyrNG — Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) September 11, 2022 2022 has been, so far, a remarkably bad year for e...
Friday, September 9, 2022

We're going to skip the crown entirely...

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You only have to be the tiniest bit Catholic to understand that modern problems require relitigating centuries-old political-religious cont...
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Thursday, September 8, 2022

Thursday Tweets

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Conventional wisdom assumed the midterms would be about Biden and Inflation. Trump and Abortion make for a very different battlefield. ...
Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Ground source heat pumps are "the most energy-efficient, environmentally clean, and cost-effective space conditioning systems available," but maybe we can get journalists to talk about them anyway. [Repost]

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I'm joking but I'm not kidding.  If Elon Musk or some other Silicon Valley visionary proposed some laughable plan based on non-e...
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Tuesday, September 6, 2022

A concern about the Canadian Health Care system

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This is Joseph. A 2017 CMAJ article has been making the rounds on Twitter that has the headline result of: Medical assistance in dying coul...
Monday, September 5, 2022

It's Labor Day, so we're taking time off and running an excerpt from a recent Monkey Cage post

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Sociologists Jasmine Kerrissey and Judith Stepan-Norris, co-authors of “Union Booms and Busts: The Ongoing Struggle over the U.S. Labor Move...
Friday, September 2, 2022

Why read about Pauline Kael when you can read Pauline Kael?

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 Andrew Gelman has a post up on his blog discussing a new book by Louis Menand that includes the following quote: "Kael’s contention t...
Thursday, September 1, 2022

Very smart post on causal inference

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This is Joseph. Andrew Gelman has a very nice piece on the challenges of causal inference over on his blog , looking at the discussion betwe...

Not doing things is a nonrival good (and while we're on the subject, can you have a nonrival good with a monopsony?)

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As mentioned before , Matt Levine has become on of the essential writers on the business and finance beat and I strongly recommend that ever...
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