Back in February, New York Times writer Clair Cain Miller wrote a piece about recent research on the gendered division of labor among heterosexual partners. Part of her article discussed the study by sociologists Brittany Dernberger and Joanna Pepin, who used Monitoring the Future data to track 12th-graders’ attitudes towards division of labor arrangements from 1976 …
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Long-lasting symptoms of COVID
Fabio Rojas has argued for most institutions reopening in the face of COVID-19, on the grounds that COVID mortality rates are quite low for the non-elderly. A number of commenters on his posted legitimately raised the issue of people with serious, long-lasting complications from COVID. It’s just not a matter of a few people dying …
Oh PISA
In Damned Lies and Statistics, Joel Best argues that consumers of statistics need to especially scrutinize international comparisons because there are so many opportunities to mix up apples and oranges (I have discussed this with regard to the conceptual definitions used to quantify police-related deaths in different countries). One of Best’s examples was international comparisons …
On Judicial Watch’s figures…
Last week I went down the rabbit hole of looking up the study by Jesse Richman and colleagues purporting to quantify the extent of voting among non-citizens in the United States in the 2008 and 2010 elections. I and other people have very serious concerns about their analyses. But setting that aside I was very …
Non-Citizen Voting Revisited
A couple of days ago I wrote about a six-year old statistical controversy in political science (in my defense, it was new to me!), where Jesse Richman and his collaboraters used a massive online survey–the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES)–to argue that non-citizen voting in the 2008 and 2010 elections in the United States was …
Non-Citizen Voting in the United States
I saw this tweet by the president of the right-wing thinktank Judicial Watch and I was curious how he arrived at those numbers. In the video he cites a 2014 study by Jesse Richman and colleagues purporting to quantify the extent to which non-citizens voted in the United States, which is nearly illegal everywhere in …
Do 40% of police families experience domestic violence?
“As the National Center for Women and Policing noted in a heavily footnoted information sheet, ‘Two studies have found that at least 40 percent of police officer families experience domestic violence, in contrast to 10 percent of families in the general population.‘” — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 9/28/14 The National Center for Women and Policing website is currently down, …
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Does the US have too stringent a lockdown policy?
On Wednesday, the economist Phil Magness posted this tweet with a graph from OurWorldInData (which I reproduce because his graph is hard to read in his tweet). I have looked at different take-downs of the U.S. policy response to COVID, and a supposed late start of lock-downs has not been a prominent theme. Mostly writers …
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Native American Attitudes Towards The Name of Some Football Team
Half a year ago, psychologist Stephanie Fryberg and her colleagues published an article (supplementary materials) in Social Psychological and Personality Science on how Native American identity influences attitudes towards sports’ teams use of native mascots, with a particular focus on the infamous Washington Redskins. Jane Recker wrote a news article about the research for The …
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Quantifying police killings part 2
Last month the Police Policy Initiative disseminated a blog post putting police killings in the United States in international context: To its credit, the PPI included a list of sources for its numbers. One thing that caught my eye was that the number of police killings for the United States comes from the …