#Causality

Miles Beckett

mbeckett

The trillion dollar question. Why are COVID cases increasing while deaths are decreasing? The answer is simple. It's called Simpson's paradox and it's the result of incorrectly pooling data and

DMKM

2paisay

Today’s thread of intro class in contemporary #econissues is on the Current Account surplus. This being Twitter, I can’t get into all the nuances but the plan is to teach

Sergey Radchenko

DrRadchenko

OK, I promise this is my last post about NATO history today (I do have a life outside reading documents!) But I just have to write about this because of

Joe Truss

trussleadership

Whiteness (a thread) Whiteness is absoluteWhiteness is “invisible”Whiteness is ubiquitous I’m tired of whiteness. Whiteness is not synonymous with white people but white people benefit from whiteness. We worked so

Yael Niv

yael_niv

Thank you, @chazfirestone, for putting this out -- I uploaded at 1am, and woke up to, well, all of this. I am considering publishing on Twitter from now on :).

el gato malo

boriquagato

PROFESSOR GATO, back yet again (working from home) with the latest cut at the question of "does lockdown and social distancing create better COV outcomes?"the answer from this latest data

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Aelkus

tbh this is a large part of why I am skeptical that science education actually will do much to combat conspiracismhttps://twitter.com/jimalkhalili/status/1247094937071620098 the particular mode here he is describing might really

ljw

levijohnwolf

@GeogBristol's final instalment of the Quantitative Geography Progress reports is online from @ProgHumGeog! In it, we take a decisive stance on what the future of quantitative geography ought to look

Edward Butler

EPButler

One of the benefits of attending the APA is the exhibitors' tables, at which one can score some impressive deals, especially on the last day. I managed to get the

Dionis Cenusa

DionisCenusa

The concept of "revolution" is missing from the vocabulary of political and civic forces, involved in post-election protests in #Belarus. Abstaining from the term "revolution" denotes the caution of protecting

Rizoma Field School

RizomaSchool

When I first moved rural I thought I was losing my mind. As a Good Environmentalist I knew plant based diets were the best for the planet.But here in front

Dan Hirschman

asociologist

Very excited to share this new publication! @prabhbob, @ellenberrey, and I find that less selective colleges enroll *fewer* Black students in years they consider race in admissions, the opposite of

Matt Nurse - if you’re not sure, don’t share

matt_nurse

One common q I hear is whether there is an science-based way to reduce the sharing of COVID-19 misinfo on social media. And the answer is YES! This interesting new

Donald Welsh

DonaldWelsh16

For a year, many have publicly warned our blinkered public health officials not to mix politics, fear and vaccine development. Yet they did and now, that lack of critical thinking

Megan Evans

megcevans

I ended up having to explain why I'm critical of this paper using words not gifs, so here it is (thread) #WomenInSTEM #WomeninScience #patriarchy #leanin https://twitter.com/megcevans/status/1331572912508190722 First, ok yes,

Philippe Lemoine

phl43

In general, I think that @OurWorldInData is great, but this analysis is extremely misleading and doesn't show what its author and @MaxCRoser claim it does. 1/nhttps://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1305799189004247040 What the author did