Favorite Rejects 2022-09-14

Matthias Weber @Matze_Weber

In a new publication, we make use of a regulatory change to show that Japanese regulation of IPO markets was successful. The paper is available open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… 1/2

Arpit Gupta @arpitrage

This is quite the wikipedia page en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russ…

(((The Daily Shot))) @SoberLook

The expected September Fed rate increase rose above 75 bps. The market is now pricing in a 30%+ probability of a 100 bps hike.

Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff

Four-day school weeks are bad.

edworkingpapers.comA Multi-State, Student-Level Analysis of the Effects of the Four-Day School Week on Student Achievement and GrowthFour-day school weeks are becoming increasingly common in the United States, but their effect on students’ achievement is not well-understood. The small body of existing research suggests the four-day schedule has relatively small, negative average effects (~-0.02 to -0.09 SD) on annual, standardize…

Jimmy @JimmySecUK

This is unsurprising; Russia's war in Ukraine was never about Ukraine joining NATO, it was always about naked Russian imperialist expansion.

Reuters @Reuters

Exclusive: Vladimir Putin's chief envoy on Ukraine told the Russian leader as the war began that he had struck a provisional deal with Kyiv that would satisfy Russia's demand that Ukraine stay out of NATO, but Putin rejected it and pressed ahead https://t.co/d7mw7NMGDN

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Hot take — dating apps don’t work because they don’t have information about smell bbc.com/future/article…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This is a great article but man are the standard ethics of clinical medical research fucked up — I think maybe doctors should have to take an undergrad philosophy class or something.

statnews.comA challenge trial can streamline testing of hepatitis C vaccinesWith a cure for #hepatitisC in hand, now is the time to use challenge trials to test new vaccines to prevent this debilitating and even deadly disease.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Crane-positivity is an ethic we must all cultivate https://t.co/ElfINa12yj

President Biden @POTUS

When Americans start seeing big projects cropping up in their hometowns – cranes going up, shovels in the ground – I want them to feel the way I feel: Pride in what we can do when we do it together.

SDL @SocDoneLeft

Factual correction works, because facts are persuasive. Wood et al 2018 found no evidence for the "backfire effect". Telling 10,100 people facts on 52 political topics changed their minds, and by a large amount: About ~1/3 much as the left-right divide on that topic!

SDL @SocDoneLeft

Tappin 2021 found that, even when people receive partisan signals that they should reject evidence, that evidence still changes their mind Across 24 policy issues, no significant difference between "evidence + contrary cue from party leader" (purple) vs "evidence alone" (black)

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This is a really interesting point from @MattGertz — Fox News is obviously quite right-wing but when something happens (like Graham's abortion bill or Rick Scott's social security cuts) that's politically inconvenient for the GOP, they don't hype it up.

mediamatters.orgFox abandoned Graham’s nationwide abortion ban because it wants to help the GOP win the midterms

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

I never thought America would embrace 援助交際, but we did.

Mike Solana @micsolana

wealthy, well-connected young women at elite universities are going viral on tiktok, and parlaying their fame into the world of sexts for cash. a wild clash of class and sex, and the strange case of stanford's tiktok sugar babies. @nmbkirk investigates: https://t.co/MV0EDzy3J6

Science News @ScienceNews

Artificial intelligence takes one step closer to noninvasively decoding what we hear and intend on saying from brain activity data.

sciencenews.orgAn AI can decode speech from brain activity with surprising accuracyDeveloped by Facebook’s parent company, Meta, the AI could eventually be used to help people who can’t communicate through speech, typing or gestures.

President Biden @POTUS

You all know I'm a car guy. Today I visited the Detroit Auto Show and saw firsthand the electric vehicles that give me so many reasons to be optimistic about our future.