Favorite Rejects 2021-10-30
OPINION: If some police officers want to leave because they don’t want to take the vaccine, we should let them.
I’m a broken record on this, but the more we learn about the pressure on Pence, the more we understand that how much his decision to defy Trump was a hinge moment in our history. It’s tough to even imagine the consequences had he caved. https://t.co/oPz2DHHUzr
Paula Chertok🗽 @PaulaChertok
To be serious, this is a big problem with the trend toward professional associations wanting to tackle all kinds of justice questions.
Housing is important to health, but getting housing policy right requires technical knowledge doctors don’t have.
Bo, et. al. (2017) looking at conscription records showed that for Swedish men, mayors and especially members of parliament were a lot smarter than the population average.
perseus.iies.su.se/~tpers/papers/…
Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen
People who say econ has no predictive power need to learn the story of how Berkeley economics professor Dan McFadden successfully predicted BART ridership in advance.
scott cunningham @causalinf
There are already small signs everywhere of a rotation away from radical online ideology back toward more traditional types of entertainment products:
Goofrider @goofrider