#Tradeoffs

Dalcash Dvinsky

dalcashdvinsky

What really bothers me is the lack of imagination. There was a moment last year, or multiple moments, when it was understood that lockdowns are only a stopgap. Track and

K

K_krazy_xoxo

You would've thought one year in and people would learn that public health (and medicine and LIFE in general) is basically balancing the tradeoffs amongst different measures but nooooooo people

Masao Dahlgren 2

divert_thruster

The Navy originally contemplated a variety of THAAD variants for its theater missile defense system before settling on the SM-3 design.Photos: Johns Hopkins APL Something I haven't seen much of

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sonyasupposedly

adulthood is realizing that a lot of what you were told in school isn't even wrong per se, rather it's impossible to actually *know* I *know* very little because the

Muireann Lynch

mu_lynch

The high number of "You can do X but not Y" tweets, where Y seems to have a similar or lower Covid risk than X, are based on the premise

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

rasmus_kleis

Here are three values I think most journalists would like to base their work on1) Seek truth and report it2) Work with moral clarity3) Serve the whole publicI wonder whether

Harlan Krumholz

hmkyale

This important article reveals the difference in patient and doctor perspectives. 'Patients indicated issues of cost were crucial to the decision while physicians and manufacturers expressed that cost was secondary

Monica McLemore PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN #OnSabbatical

mclemoremr

1/A random RANT on things I wish were different. I wish someone had told me that my time is my most valuable asset & that determining how I use it

antirobust

antirobust

just because energy use correlates to poverty, it doesn't necessarily mean energy policy should focus on alleviating povertyhttps://www.elementascience.org/article/10.1525/elementa.419 the notion that one's approach in each policy d

Anna Gifty is on IG and says #SACE2021

itsafronomics

H/t @ChelseaHerps: If you visit Google's front page today, you may see a Black guy with glasses. If you're an economist #EconTwitter, you probably know who this is. If not,

Lorin Hochstein E_TOO_MANY_FAILURE_MODES

lhochstein

Quick thread on the five tradeoffs identified by Hoffman and Woods in the paper "Beyond Simon's Slice": https://cmapsinternal.ihmc.us/rid=1K2MHS0D4-1ZT3XRF-HPX/46.%2520Simon's%2520Slice.pdf 1. Optimality vs. resilience (ad

Pfluft

PloederlM

1/ Our new paper about the minimal important difference (MID) of antidepressants (AD). Because there is a paywall, here the main findings in a thread.https://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/02/15/bmjebm-2020-111600.full 2/ First of all, Mich

David Schleicher

ProfSchleich

The real case for state bankruptcy is not only that it allows creditors to be impaired. It is that it provides a forum in which the harms imposed on different

Chaim Bell

chaim_bell

As a Healthcare Worker (HCW), during the 1st wave of the pandemic, I was exhausted with feelings of being overwhelmed and impending doom. Running on adrenalin helped channel these feelings

Dr. Jennifer Doleac

jenniferdoleac

If I am required to pay undergrad RAs $15/ hour, I will definitely hire fewer of them. Silver lining: less paperwork for me. Ok enough pot-stirring for now; I'm muting

Jesse O'Connell

jesseocnl

Here’s the piece of the student debt forgiveness discourse that I want to say something about. The assertion that we can’t do it because not all Americans have student debt

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