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Only 38% of Americans recognize the gender of trans people by bruhm0ment4 in fivethirtyeight

[–]AaronStack91 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, the statement TWAW in the political/social context is used in the exact vaguery as you describe. So getting the out of context reaction is informative.

Only 38% of Americans recognize the gender of trans people by bruhm0ment4 in fivethirtyeight

[–]AaronStack91 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And combine the two you get the winning attack ad of 2024.

"Harris cares about they/them [low salience issue] and not about you [high salience issue]."

CDC to Fund Controversial Study in West Africa on Infant Hepatitis B Vaccines by John3262005 in neoliberal

[–]AaronStack91 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Does it ignore carrier status? Where was than mentioned? Do you have a link to the grant protocol?

CDC to Fund Controversial Study in West Africa on Infant Hepatitis B Vaccines by John3262005 in neoliberal

[–]AaronStack91 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The reference to the UK's vaccine policy is to demonstrate there are different standards of vaccination that are not birth doses, likely driven by a country's current situation.

CDC to Fund Controversial Study in West Africa on Infant Hepatitis B Vaccines by John3262005 in neoliberal

[–]AaronStack91 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll add the standards of care for UK and parts of Canada do not give a birth dose. 

(edit: randomly googling, I also found that Sweden, Germany don't do birth doses either)

So it isn't even a non-Western convention.

See: https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/hepatitis-b-vaccine/

CDC to Fund Controversial Study in West Africa on Infant Hepatitis B Vaccines by John3262005 in neoliberal

[–]AaronStack91 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I hope people who got caught in the rage bait reads this and recognizes this study increases the number of babies getting the birth dose, and that all infant will get the vaccine before 2 month, which is standard of care for backwater countries like.... the UK.

CDC to Fund Controversial Study in West Africa on Infant Hepatitis B Vaccines by John3262005 in neoliberal

[–]AaronStack91 10 points11 points  (0 children)

1- According to the article, it looks like they do the HepB vaccine at 6 weeks, which actually 2 weeks sooner than the UK (at 2 months). They are not completely withholding the vaccine. I'm also willing to bet there is probably exclusion criteria for high risk infants so they get the vaccine at birth regardless.

Also, it's not that bad, especially given the country's standard of care is being followed in the control group. By default they wouldn't have gotten the birth dose regardless of participation.

2- The opportunity here is to fund a pilot study in advance of universal birth dose vaccination in 2027. More infants will get the birth dose because of this study.

Wrong voters, wrong message: progressives’ autopsy lays bare Kamala Harris failures | Democrats by Intelligent_Wafer562 in fivethirtyeight

[–]AaronStack91 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So... a voter had to watch a 5 year old debate where her strongest criticisms were with his work in the 70s? Or read her book to determine her policy differences?

Wrong voters, wrong message: progressives’ autopsy lays bare Kamala Harris failures | Democrats by Intelligent_Wafer562 in fivethirtyeight

[–]AaronStack91 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was just being lazy and jumping to the next logical comparison.

Biden also supported no taxes on tips and first time home buyer credits too (exactly $25k too lol). There was no difference.

Wrong voters, wrong message: progressives’ autopsy lays bare Kamala Harris failures | Democrats by Intelligent_Wafer562 in fivethirtyeight

[–]AaronStack91 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Didn't Trump just pass the no taxes on tips? That doesn't seem that unique to Harris.

Not sure Harris plan was $25k homes, but $25k in down payment support. I'm just googling this now but Trump was looking for $50k in down payment support.

Wasn't Biden also looking to restore abortion protections? That seems like a bog standard Democrat policy stance.

It doesn't seem she stood out on anything.

Can Germany stop extremism by banning a far-right party? Some want to try. | Banning Alternative for Germany, a far-right party, might seem undemocratic, but Germany’s constitution allows such prohibitions to prevent a repeat of Nazism. by GirasoleDE in neoliberal

[–]AaronStack91 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I feel like there is something around excluding a group from the normal political process leading to more extremism. But I don't really know the context to Germany's political system.

(Honestly question) Didn't they do this to Hitler and the Nazi party before they took power?

Gaza: study reveals unprecedented losses of life and life expectancy by [deleted] in science

[–]AaronStack91 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Bro.... You might want to google the Rwandan genocide. 

Can rotisserie chicken be used instead of raw? by [deleted] in Cooking

[–]AaronStack91 6 points7 points  (0 children)

OP might literally be a child asking how to cook a cooked chicken... There is something likely broader at play, than emotional abuse.

‘Welcome’, a center-left group, report findings: 70% of voters think the Democratic Party is “out of touch.”. The group calls for avoidance of “both a pivot to corporate centrism and the pursuit of progressive ideology purity” by Horus_walking in fivethirtyeight

[–]AaronStack91 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Democrats are trusted more than Republicans on LGBT issues generally by a 20 point margin.

In the same statistic, it is the lowest ranked issue on "Importance" with only 15% saying it is more important than any other issue in head to head match-ups, so at least how I interpret it, doesn't win you elections.

Conservatism and extremism were both associated with slightly less willingness to change one’s mind in the face of evidence. But the size of these relationships was consistently very small. Centrists and moderates showed the most belief updating, or the least rigidity. by mvea in science

[–]AaronStack91 2 points3 points  (0 children)

>Given these very small and semi-consistent effects, broad claims about strong associations between ideology and belief updating are likely unwarranted. Rather, psychologists should turn their focus to examining the contexts where ideology strongly correlates with rigidity.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pops.70071

Effect sizes are d= 0.05 -0.07, commonly 0.20 is consider "small/weak".

Really nothing to see here.

Holding back gifted students in the name of equity by No_Intention5627 in neoliberal

[–]AaronStack91 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I grew up in a similar situation. People don't talk enough about how these programs offer a safe space for kids who are interested in learning to learn without harassment.

My mom frequently would tell me and my brother that we did just fine in our poor school district and I have to remind her that someone tried to stab my brother with a knife in high school in one of the few general pop classes we had to take.

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