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Party Time
It has been nearly five years since the publication of Affect, Not Ideology: A Social Identity Perspective on Polarization. In that time, the paper has accumulated over 450 citations according to Google Scholar. (Citation counts on Google Scholar tend to be a bit optimistic.) So, how does the paper hold
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
Searching for Mr. President
All politics may be local, but Google search data suggests that people are far more interested in learning about the president than they are in learning about their local politicians.
Confirmation Bias: Confirming Media Bias
It used to be that searches for "Fox News Bias" were more common than searches for "CNN bias." Not anymore. The other notable thing is the peaks around presidential elections.
Note also that searches around midterm elections barely rise above the noise.
God, Weather, and News vs. Porn
The Internet is for porn (Avenue Q). So it makes sense to measure things on the Internet in porn units.
I jest, just a bit.
In Everybody Lies, Seth Stephens Davidowitz points out that people search for porn more than weather on GOOG. Data from Google Trends for the disbelievers.
Incentives to Care
A lot of people have their lives cut short because they eat too much and exercise too little. Worse, the quality of their shortened lives is typically much lower as a result of avoidable' illnesses that stem frombad behavior.’ And that isn’t all. People who are not feeling
Measuring Segregation
Dissimilarity index is a measure of segregation. It runs as follows:
where:
is population of
in the ith area
is population of
in the larger area from which dissimilarity is being measured against
The measure suffers from a couple of issues:
1. Concerns about lumpiness. Even in a small area,