My favorite paper that I've read this year — a look at how confusion between inferential uncertainty and outcome variability creates all sorts of problems — is now out in PNAS.

Here's the paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2302491120

Here's the thread I wrote about the preprint last April: https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/110267907188002904

The number of minors employed in violation of child labor laws increased 37% in the last year.

Remarkably, this year, legislators in 6 states (IA, MN, MO, NE, OH, SD) have proposed 8 bills that make it easier to exploit kids for profit.

We live in the Second Gilded Age.

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