Extremely impressive field experiment by @nmalhotra.bsky.social et al. had few effects on election attitudes among conservatives in TX despite being "exposed to an average of 20 online videos, 18.5 cable TV videos, 23.9 display ads, 3 text messages, and 3 postcards" www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Anyone remember how Ma Bell used to dox the the whole damn city and deliver it your doorstep free of charge?

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2/ We find that 21.1% of replication packages with author-collected data contain PII • 14.4% with direct identifiers • 7.0% with IP addresses • 7.0% with indirect identifiers These estimates are likely lower bounds, especially for indirect PII Paper: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

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"But Carl, it's fun and creative. That's why we literally have to force you not to throw it in the garbage."

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6. When I was 24 years old, I wrote a long letter to my academic hero, John Maynard Smith, asking him for comments on a paper I'd written about one of his models. He had never heard of me but my missive launched a (pen-and-paper) correspondence that ran hundreds of pages and lasted until his death.

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