The good Prof @Sarina_Sahetya asked me to resume my series of extracts from @hauschildt's stories from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00221465221143088 #FOAMed

Let's read the hard case of Ms. Rosset, a Black 48-year-old pharmacy technician with metastatic breast cancer. She came into the ICU while her teenage son was on a school trip

Her family hoped that she might be kept alive until her son returned from his trip to see his dying mother

Wealth inequality in the U.S. is extreme. So extreme, that it's hard to gain intuition. With a new interactive visualization Asher Dvir-Djerassi and I provide a tool that may help.

It lets you explore wealth levels across the full distribution (inequality among the 99%) while also allowing the display of wealth at the top that would otherwise be "off the charts".

Check it out (you can mark up the x-axis & add the Forbes 400): https://asherdvirdjerassi.github.io/wealth_thresholds_viz/figure1.html

Published version: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231221143957

🚨 Job Alert 🚨

DIRECTOR of the SURVEY RESEARCH CENTER at the Institute for Social Research (University of Michigan).

An amazing organization with more than 500 employees (incl. ~80 core faculty). SRC is an international leader in social science research, especially involving the collection of data (e.g., it hosts the PSID, HRS, and many other cornerstones of the social science data infrastructure).

Application information here (feel free to reach out with questions): https://www.imsearch.com/open-searches/university-michigan-institute-social-research/director-survey-research-center

#Introduction

I am a philosopher of social science and medicine with additional expertise in bioethics and meta-research. I am interested in cross-science conversation and vocabularies, evidence amalgamation methods, and thinking about causes.

You can see my work here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=E2IR1HwAAAAJ&hl=en

Especially interested to link up with people making the migration from #epitwitter #econtwitter and #philosophytwitter

I am also renovating a 100 year old terrace house. #cheapoldhouses

Yesterday I taught my last class ever, a seminar for first-year grad students introducing them to the field. For this meaningful occasion, one of the articles I chose to discuss was Steven Roberts et al's excellent "Racial inequality in psychological research."

Today, Roberts posted a preprint describing appalling, racist treatment he has received from the journal since publication of that article.

The perverse irony of the editor's behavior should be lost on no one

https://psyarxiv.com/xk4yu