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Good NYT: Provision of 'Not News' in the NYT Over Time

The mainstream American news media are under siege from the political right, but for the wrong reasons. To the hyper-partisan political elites, small inequities in slant matter a lot. But hyperventilating about small issues doesn’t magically turn them into serious problems. It just makes them loom larger. And takes

Missing Women on the Streets of Delhi

In 1990, Amartya Sen estimated that more than 100 million women were missing in South and West Asia and China. His NYRB article shed light on sex discrimination in parts of Asia, highlighting, among other things, pathologies like sex-selective abortion, biases in nutrition, healthcare, and schooling. We aim to extend

Estimating Bias and Error in Perceptions of Group Composition

People’s reports of perceptions of the share of various groups in the population are typically biased. The bias is generally greater for smaller groups. The bias also appears to vary by how people feel about the group—they are likelier to think that the groups they don’t like

Incentives to Care

A lot of people have their lives cut short because they eat too much and exercise too little. Worse, the quality of their shortened lives is typically much lower as a result of avoidable' illnesses that stem frombad behavior.’ And that isn’t all. People who are not feeling

Unstrapped

When strapped for time, some resort to wishful thinking, others to lashing out. Both are illogical. If you are strapped for time, it is either because you scheduled poorly or because you were a victim of unanticipated obligations. Both are understandable, but neither justifies ‘acting out.’ So don’t. Whatever

How Do We Know?

How can fallible creatures like us know something? The scientific method is about answering that question well. To answer the question well, we have made at least three big innovations: 1. Empiricism. But no privileged observer. What you observe should be reproducible by all others. 2. Open to criticism: If