#Survey

Jethro F Elsden

JethroFElsden

"So if you manage to get, say, 85 per cent of people to take it and it turns out to be 90 per cent effective, that's still 25 per cent

Justin Wolfers

JustinWolfers

Payrolls +638k in October, and the unemployment rate has fallen by a full percentage point to 6.9% (even as participation rose).A very strong household report, with a weaker (but pretty

John Polga-Hecimovich

jpolga

An election day thought:Sadly, I have never been so conscious of comparative political scientists so explicitly studying and worrying about the state of US democracy. In 2014, @drsltaylor, @laderafrutal, and

Michael McDonald

ElectProject

The "expert" witness for the Kraken plaintiffs analyzes a survey of people who have a record of casting an absentee ballot. It is a survey! Must be 100% accurate, right?

Yair Rosenberg

Yair_Rosenberg

Jewish Insider's @matthewkassel just keeps scooping the entire political media ecosystem on Rep. Madison Cawthorn, who here discusses how it is hard to proselytize to religious Jews because they don't

Martin Barrow

MartinBarrow

The Independent Children’s Homes Association #ICHA, representing companies who run children’s homes for profit, has published its annual ‘state of the sector’. You can find it via https://www.icha.org.uk/documents/ Some though

Stephen T Casper

TheNeuroTimes

While I certainly applaud journalism focused on epidemiologists, journalists might want to survey American historians of medicine for their opinions about how we are doing.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/upshot/epidemiologists-virus-surv

IndiaSpend

IndiaSpend

India, with the world’s 2nd most #COVID19 cases, might find it difficult to accurately identify the impact of the #pandemic because of a lack of poverty data, says the #PRESS2020

Adam Tranter

adamtranter

THREAD: A thread on research and sampling, and how the media use data and polling.I can safely say from a decade of working with media, it is *highly* unusual for

Sarah 🍓

SarahJ_Berry

But it wasn't just orgasms and strong pelvic floors -- there were also risks to cycling.Doctors warned the rattling of women's innards could lead to tuburculosis, gout, or the dreaded

Joy Bhattacharjya

joybhattacharj

One of my favourite stories, which is really about the importance of looking at things the right way!During the Second World War, the British government wanted to figure out how

Dr Kit Byatt

Laconic_doc

@bmj_latest #CovidUnknowns conference just started global comparisons- review of NZ experience by Michael Baker NZ strategy effective and preserved the economy. #covidunknowns Good science plus effective leadership are both needed

IndiaSpend

IndiaSpend

New research has shown that pre-existing antibodies for the common cold could help protect people, especially children, from #COVID19. Read this thread for insights: Scientists at the University College London

Sargoon

SargoonK

Seen a lot of people aver the following, "but where are the jobs?" in response to someone asserting the need to incentivize the movement of our people from agriculture to

Simon Hunter

SimonHunter28

The bull case on the consumerization of healthcare in the US seems to assume that healthcare $ shift from the insurers to the consumer, via an HDHP + HSA. But

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

So today let's have a short lesson in survey methodology and how it can lead us astray. Lots of people would like to know how Iranians actually feel about their

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