New draft of a paper I'm excited about, "Hidden Fires: Real versus Measured Performance in Bureaucracies" is up. Sharing here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rujds...

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Thanks, that is interesting.

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Email did to white collar work what the washing machine did to housework: creating as many problems as it solved. See, as Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows in More Work for Mother, washing machines made washing clothes much easier, but in the process, it also shifted cultural norms...

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🚨 Public good alert: I put together a list of 100+ free datasets for social science research, spanning a large number of topics. I hope it's useful for students, researchers, and anyone looking for interesting data to explore. It's on GitHub - contributions welcome! github.com/toddrjones/d...

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It’s so easy to hide nonsense behind statistics. Meta-analysis is a great example of it. It appears to be a sophisticated analysis of a nice clean set of effect sizes, but there is about a thousand ways for each effect size to be biased, miscalculated, or outright made up.

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