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philipncohen

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Sociologist and demographer, University of Maryland. Director of SocArXiv. philipncohen.com #sociology #demography #inequality

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Control group says what now?

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Today I realized "resilience" in psychology is inequality in sociology. Something is a "risk factor" if it has an average negative effect. If everyone overcame the risk equally there would be no negative effect and thus no resilience. Resilience means some people overcome it and others don't.

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@grimalkina I read an ed psych paper that defined resilience as when an individual with a risk factor - defined as something that produces a bad outcome on average - does better than the average for the affected group. Just mathematically that seems like a measure of inequality. (I know psychologists know and care about inequality - and the inequitable distribution of risk factors, and thus need for resilience, etc)

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It's the very rare writer whose unedited work I will pay to read. That's a blog, and it's free for a reason. If you want me to pay, polish it up and get it past an editor like a professional. And don't tell me you need the support - real publications and their workers need my support.

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don't have much patience for, "this industry is in trouble so let's fire all the unknown people behind the scenes and pretend we still have a decent product." I'll subscribe to your substack if you name your paid editor.

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I sell textbooks, and when you buy one I get somewhat less than 15% of the sticker price. That's my incentive to get it done. The rest is for the professionals at the employee-owned publisher who make it worth reading and teaching.

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@Alon yea there is such a movement and it mostly produces, no offense, inferior products because it actually takes money to make good textbooks. My book is $44, I never heard of a $4722 book.

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@Alon Tricky issue. Yes, gouging, but compared to the attention it gets textbooks are a small part of the cost of college except at the cheapest schools. Many students are happy to pay less for short term licenses.

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All that facial recognition and surveillance, and clear daylight video, and Haaretz reports Israeli police arrested all of 4 people from the mob who ransacked an aid convoy

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Agree. PEN does much more good than harm. We can't afford to lose allies like this in the years to come. https://thehill.com/opinion/education/4646012-writers-attacking-pen-america-over-israel-are-burning-down-their-own-house/

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@Alon honestly I do not know, but I would guess there are more intellectuals who have a vague sense that he is kind of anti-Islam than there are people who have read his books.

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Robin DG Kelley: "I suspect that your previous executive and managerial posts in the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Bank of England did not prepare you to lead a university. These students are ... doing what you should be doing: leading." https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/letter-to-columbia-university-president-minouche-shafik/

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Endorsement of Palestine resolution by a group of former ASA presidents.

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Common Grackle, Northern Flicker, Brown-headed Cowbird, wet Blue Jay

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Knock me over with a feather, he's misinterpreted the data. Tx, @jessicacalarco

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I'm noticing some people think a group of protestors having a Seder is super peaceful and wholesome while a group of protestors having a Muslim prayer is disconcerting and possibly intimidating.

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@Alon of all holidays to politicize, this one seems most fitting. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/us/campus-protest-seders.html

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The Coddling of the American Parent. On Haidt's book:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-coddling-of-the-american-parent

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One of the weirdest modern things to me is this obsession with generations. Maybe I haven't read the right stuff, but you pick up a 19th or 18th century book and they talk about the past, or conflict in families between old and young, but never this weird cohort-antagonism thing?

Could be it's random culture shit, but maybe it's because people have fewer kids, so they don't span generations? Or maybe tech acceleration means cohorts have more differences that are real?

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@ZachWeinersmith Good question. I've written a lot trying to debunk generational bologna. It's perusable here: https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/tag/generations/

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Long article on international isolation of Israeli academics. Lots of this is not publicly visible, which is a shame. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-12/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/amid-gaza-war-israeli-academia-faces-an-unprecedented-boycott/0000018e-cee6-d5ed-adcf-fff6f1d00000?gift=b75d6bdcff234d43b2d7f141523bc84c

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Yikes. Spike in tubal ligation and vasectomy after Dobbs. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2817438
Ht Leslie Root, Garnet Henderson

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Apparently, a wave of retirements coincided with new diversity initiatives to substantially increase UMD faculty diversity in the last two years. https://dbknews.com/2024/04/11/umd-black-faculty-increase/

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Got to the first percent sign in Haidt's book, on page 4, checked the reference and he's wrong (misstated result in poor research). That's a 100% percentage statement error rate!

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Thank you, NYTimes - I feel much safer

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Elections are won by thousands of votes. He thinks someone is generating lists of eligible voters and addresses in swing states and busing thousands of immigrants to many voting places (before each real voter arrives that day). In secret.

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The kind of person who falls for this baloney thinks they are this close to qualifying for the estate tax, has no concept of the power a billionaire has, and probably blames the Jews, because who else could pull off this conspiracy.

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