Fabrizio Bernardi

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Professor of Sociology at #UNED, EiC of #ESR. Do not speak for these organizations.
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Fabrizio BernardiApr 6, 2023
danah boydApr 5, 2023

Coming back from sabbatical, I'm suffering from whiplash due to deterministic rhetoric around AI. I wrote myself some notes: https://zephoria.medium.com/resisting-deterministic-thinking-52ef8d78248c

But I'm also curious... why do you think deterministic rhetoric SOOOOOOO pervasive right now?

Resisting Deterministic Thinking - danah boyd - Medium

AI is here and it will change everything! OMG the sky is falling! Programmers are now obsolete. No, they are needed more than ever before. Large language models will destroy journalism, democracy…

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Fabrizio BernardiFeb 20, 2023
Show threadRense CortenFeb 20, 2023
@FabrizioBernardi I wasn't around in the 70's but my impression is that it was always a bit of a niche. I remember, some 15 years ago, an editor of Mathematical Sociology complaining about a lack of submissions, as many math sociologist studying networks started submitting their work to mainstream journals instead.
Fabrizio BernardiFeb 20, 2023
Guillem VidalFeb 20, 2023
RT @KarlosJ89
Hoy abro debate sobre meritocracia en @Espacio_Pub para aclarar su interpretación como mecanismo de selección e ideología cargada de (pre)juicios morales y el rol del esfuerzo. La meritocracia nos desvía de las políticas para construir sociedades + justas👇https://espacio-publico.com/la-meritocracia-un-principio-conservador-o-progresista
La Meritocracia: ¿un principio conservador o progresista?

La Meritocracia: ¿un principio conservador o progresista?

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Fabrizio BernardiFeb 20, 2023

Take your pen and paper, read the commentary recently published on ESR by @Yastrebov and do some math:

https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcac041

Mathematical sociology is a lost subfield, at least in EU

It would be nice to rescue it
🚣 ♾️ 📐

Signals, educational decision-making, and inequality: a comment on the formal model by Holm, Hjorth-Trolle, and Jæger

Abstract. In this comment, I explore the assumptions and the implications of the formal (mathematical) model proposed by Holm, Hjorth-Trolle, and Jæger (HHJ) in

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Fabrizio BernardiFeb 17, 2023
Peter FallesenFeb 16, 2023

New paper hot of the presses in PDR with
@MarcoCozzani,
@JuhoHarkonen,
@PassarettaG, and @FabrizioBernardi "The Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Fertility and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Spanish Birth Registers".

https://t.co/w4V98PNUqN

Fabrizio BernardiFeb 13, 2023

[continues on method self-relfective papers published on ESR]

Quantile regression
https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcac052

Collider bias
https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcy037

Sibling models with categorical outcome
https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaa057

Almost a syllabus for an advanced methods class...💥

Quantile regression estimands and models: revisiting the motherhood wage penalty debate

Abstract. This paper discusses the crucial but sometimes neglected differences between unconditional quantile regression (UQR) models and quantile treatment eff

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Show threadFabrizio BernardiFeb 13, 2023

This paper adds to a lists of papers published on ESR that (self)reflect on how we do empirical sociological research (in Europe) and provide indication on how to improve our research practices

Logit and marginal effect
https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcp006

The abuse of significance testing https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcw047

Multilevel modelling
https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcv059
https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcv090
https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcy053

[continues]

Logistic Regression: Why We Cannot Do What We Think We Can Do, and What We Can Do About It

Abstract. Logistic regression estimates do not behave like linear regression estimates in one important respect: They are affected by omitted variables, even wh

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Fabrizio BernardiFeb 13, 2023

How to select your control variables?

https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcac078

Start your week well and read this paper just published on ESR.

And tell your PhD students to read it...

Control variable selection in applied quantitative sociology: a critical review

Abstract. A review of all research papers published in the European Sociological Review in 2016 and 2017 (N = 118) shows that only a minority of papers clearly

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Show threadFabrizio BernardiFeb 7, 2023

Next week Thursday 16th Feb
19:00

UNED-Madrid Inequality and social demography seminar

with
Carlos Gil (JRC European Commission)

presenting

Making Up for Unlucky Genetics for (Non) Cognitive Skills? A
Pre-Registered Gene Environment Interaction Study on Educational Inequality

where: Escuelas Pias, calle Tribulete, 14 Madrid

Fabrizio BernardiFeb 7, 2023

Check out the impressive line-up and program of the UNED inequality and social demography seminar for this term 🔥

If you are in Madrid join us for the seminar... and beer(s) afterwards