Beautiful example of elevating the hollow trend story. It doesn't just quote no people doing the thing it says people are doing (it instead quotes an influencer and someone trying to sell phones). It also quotes an unidentified person, whose full name on first mention must have been cut, saying that dumb phone sales are flat but "could" increase in the next five years. OK. But on top of that, they add a *17 minute* video package! Kudos! Amazing garbage. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/29/dumb-phones-are-on-the-rise-in-the-us-as-gen-z-limits-screen-time.html

Really something here in the way party coalitions can only hold members to task so long as they need the coalition for their own goals. Look at the way Cheney used to talk about the second amendment. https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aliz_cheney%202nd%20amendment&src=typed_query&f=top

A real niche question here, but does anyone know of a study that looks at whether days per week #survey measures tend to be bimodal?

Secondary analysis of ANES data (and frankly lots of data from other sources) is really rough if you have even a little bit of OCD. Why is every single set of response options coded in the wrong direction?!

I've written 1000 words today.