Pardon being away for a bit! I'm back with a humdinger, a new study showing the palpable bias in social sciences!
References:
https://x.com/Theory_Society/status/2033604101896806649
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-026-09690-2
They're not good! They are good! The question of if to use SATs as part of college admissions rages! The latest comes from the University of California faculty who want the SAT and ACT back.
References
https://www.kpbs.org/news/education/2026/05/29/uc-faculty-push-for-return-of-sat-act-math-testing-for-stem-majors
https://international.collegeboard.org/toolkit/sat-policy/understanding-sat/predictive-validity
https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2024/01/sat-act-scores-more-predictive-of-academic-success-at-ivy-plus-schools-than-high-school-grades-new-study-suggests
A landmark set of studies highlights another set of serious problems in the social sciences: reproducibility, robustness, and replicability.
References:
https://x.com/matthewgburgess/status/2039432661295620511
Science magazine has a contributor finally starting to ask good questions. How would you answer them?
References:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeg1977
https://www.aaas.org/news/task-force-releases-vision-american-science-and-technology
A study in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health examines the fraction of children with asthma that is attributable to gas stoves in the home. Interesting take, but there are a few things worth pointing out.
The YouTube version of the episode will be up tomorrow morning!
Article reviewed in this episode:
Population Attributable Fraction of Gas Stoves and Childhood Asthma in the United States
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/1/75
Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
https://uppbeat.io/t/mojo/rebel
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The new one on the actions of “Affinity Groups” is quite interesting, but you can only get it as a paying subscriber! Go check it out! https://open.spotify.com/episode/0f9q192oAAwAiKCjCC6Edv?si=0b_flngGQliFxK7I_d5N6Q
There will be no content over Thanksgiving week since I'm off on vacation. Happy Thanksgiving all!
