Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Inequality at Cornell. One of the founding editors of Sociological Science. Do not speak for these organizations.
inequality and mobility, social class, higher education, women in STEM, occupations, and a bit of Alaska.
Procrastination tool for social scientists: How many of these studies can you identify?
I knew about half. (Sadly, between Kanazawa and Wansink, too many had Cornell connections. Even without Bem's ESP studies on the list.)
Source: Andrew Gelman, in the comments: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/06/21/ted-talking-data-fakers-who-write-books-about-lying-and-rule-breaking-whats-up-with-that/
If you want to see what this looks like with the Independents graphed, the Ind-lean Dems in with the Dems, and the Ind-lean Reps in with the Reps, see (under current affairs)
https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/trends
Screenshot of "abortion for any reason" below.
I love GSS' new data release day!
Here, already, is a nice visualization of trends in abortion attitudes by political partisanship, including post-Dobbs data. From Tom Wood on that other site.
20% (=505/2502) of readers in Nature's nonrandom poll on "quiet quitting" said they had reduced effort in peer review. If generalizes, expect ever-longer review times, esp. if AI-generated papers swamp system.
25% (=635/2502) had reduced their effort in conferences. This seems kinda bad for organizations that rely on conferences for operating revenue.
(Rank-specific Ns are not reported, so the rank-specific counts of activities are fairly meaningless.)
Article here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00633-w
I posted on the other site that to protect academic freedom and save money, universities need to invest in scholar-led publication initiatives that bypass the for-profit publishers.
Part of this is recognizing that #OA is entirely compatible with for-profit model that sucks resources out of unis while reducing average quality of work.
See this link for an example from philosophy, where Wiley is pushing editors to increase number of papers by factor of 10 to start.
Robert Goodin, the founding and longtime editor of the Journal of Political Philosophy, has been removed from his position at the journal by its publisher, Wiley. Goodin wrote to the associate editors and editorial board informing them of his firing, and in response many have submitted their resignations, including associate editors Sally Haslanger, Philip Pettit, Anne
A tiny molehill on the mountain of problems at Southwest Airlines, but their CEO writes at about a 7th grade level.
I don't have systematic data, but it sure seems like I see more official communications (e.g., corporate statements) that are poorly written, including making basic grammatical and punctuation errors.
Another Trump effect?
