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Firmly Against Posing Firmly

“What is crucial for you as the writer is to express your opinion firmly,” writes William Zinsser in “On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction.” To emphasize the point, Bill repeats the point at the end of the paragraph, ending with, “Take your stand with conviction.” This advice

Sigh-tations

In 2010, Google estimated that approximately 130M books had been published. As a species, we still know very little about the world. But what we know already far exceeds what any of us can learn in a lifetime. Scientists are acutely aware of the point. They must specialize, as chances

Taking a Holiday from Looking for Jobs

Good NYT: Provision of 'Not News' in the NYT Over Time

The mainstream American news media are under siege from the political right, but for the wrong reasons. To the hyper-partisan political elites, small inequities in slant matter a lot. But hyperventilating about small issues doesn’t magically turn them into serious problems. It just makes them loom larger. And takes

Missing Women on the Streets of Delhi

In 1990, Amartya Sen estimated that more than 100 million women were missing in South and West Asia and China. His NYRB article shed light on sex discrimination in parts of Asia, highlighting, among other things, pathologies like sex-selective abortion, biases in nutrition, healthcare, and schooling. We aim to extend

Estimating Bias and Error in Perceptions of Group Composition

People’s reports of perceptions of the share of various groups in the population are typically biased. The bias is generally greater for smaller groups. The bias also appears to vary by how people feel about the group—they are likelier to think that the groups they don’t like