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STEMing the Rot: Does Relative Deprivation Explain Low STEM Graduation Rates at Top Schools?

The following few paragraphs are from Sociation Today: Using the work of Elliot (et al. 1996), Gladwell compares the proportion of each class that gets a STEM degree compared to the math SAT at Hartwick College and Harvard University. Here is what he presents for Hartwick: Students at Hartwick College

Campaigns, Construction, and Moviemaking

American presidential political campaigns, big construction projects, and big-budget moviemaking have a lot in common. They are all complex enterprises with lots of moving parts; they all bring together lots of people for a short period, and they all need people to hit the ground running and execute in lockstep

everywhere: meeting consumers where they are

Content delivery is not optimized for the technical stack used by an overwhelming majority of people. The technical stack of people who aren’t particularly tech-savvy, especially those who are old (over ~60 years), is often a messaging application like Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp. They currently do not have a

AFib: Apple Watch Did Not Increase Atrial Fibrillation Diagnoses

A new paper purportedly shows that the release of the Apple Watch 2018, which supported the ECG app, did not cause an increase in AFib diagnoses (mean = −0.008). They make the claim based on 60M visits from 1270 practices across 2 years. Here are some things to think about:

Amartya Sen on Keynes, Robinson, Smith, and the Bengal Famine

Sen in conversation with Angus Deaton and Tim Besley — pdf and video. Excepts: On Joan Robinson “She took a position—which has actually become very popular in India now, not coming from the left these days, but from the right—that what you have to concentrate on is simply maximizing