Being from Milwaukee is surprisingly good socialization for being a sociologist.

Oh this is funny. Reviewers will do all sorts of things to try and kill a paper, or at least part of it.

It also doesn't help that the forested area is mostly uninhabited. Here's a map illustrating Canada's population distribution. Notice how this map aligns with the one with the forests.

Aside from the obvious fact that "raking the forest" doesn't address moisture, this is a map of Canada's forests. Good luck raking 10% of the world's forest.

Right, the radical part is that it turns out there is a *surprisingly small number of things* we can reduce to biological sex differences because the overlap between male / female on stuff is quite frequently something like this:

I got a pretty good record (75-7) on round 6 with the most messed up team construction ever. Damian Lillard, Pistol Pete, Amare Stoudemire, Wilt Chaimberlain...and Lebron James to try and keep them all happy. www.82-0.com/share?id=nDY...

My graduate stats students made a painting for me. It is one of the best gifts I have ever received.

I think I would have stopped here.

There are a lot of reasons for it, but that's a big one. From @ourworldindata.org :

The answer is no. There is no way that smartphones are responsible for a 40% decline in worldwide fertility rate. This is what the graph looks like from 1970 to the present (from @ourworldindata.org).

The prosecution calls the Lexis Diagram to the stand.

There is a whole section of Esping-Andersen's Social Foundations of Postindustrial Society about the distribution of laundry services across different countries. The US is a huge outlier

POPE HATS FOR EVERYONE ‘Pope Hat is blowing up' is my favorite sentence I read today. www.mlb.com/news/chicago...

I don't know how they could get this wrong, because everything they need to know is in the abstract.

I'm a huge fan of methodological pluralism. McGrath's Dilemmatics is a good take on it, and provides my favorite rebuttal to methodological nihilism by taking the "all research is bad" and flipping it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

I guess probit is fine in addition to logit, but you don't need both. *cue the furious debate of probit vs logit*

Have we ever gotten an extended apology for this one?

I'm going to get a lot of use out of this one today, I can feel it.

I loved this so much from @rmcelreath.bsky.social that I have saved it on my computer. Personally I'm at Wall-E is AI, I think the other boxes have more useful and specific terms.

The quote where the dude calls it an "ultimate exit" is almost perfectly parallel to the concept of Exit City.

There are so many ways that people completely misunderstand statistical significance it was hard to pick just one

The correct interpretation of "two cloves of garlic"

Canada isn't exactly what you would call a "rural" country in the way I grew up thinking about it. This is a population map of Canada. You see that white area? That's not mostly not "rural," that's mostly the forest (and wildlife, and mountains). Only about 10% of Canada's population lives there.

One thing to remember about Canada is that if you pick a random place in Canada you'll wind up in a place with almost no people. But if you pick a random person in Canada, there is a decent chance the person lives pretty close to a place like this:

I think there's also a place for Rose the Hat, although without the knowledge of what she is it would go over most people's heads.

I think there's a way to check all of the boxes.

When the people who create a graph call it a "visualization" it always looks something like this:

I spend a lot of time being very annoyed with "now more than ever-ism." David Autor / Larry Summers define it like this. It is useless to repeat that we need to deregulate everything / abolish capitalism / foster "civil debate" on campus / etc. in response to *everything.*

The whole website was clearly sold to them as a package and they literally didn't even bother to even change the fake text. The phone number has an Illinois area code. They have different addresses in different parts of the site. Here is their answer to "Does your pepperoni contain gluten?"

This is good. Reminds me of my favorite alignment chart, from here: www.reddit.com/r/AlignmentC...