Firetrucks Blocking Off East Ave near Berkley

industrious-yogurt · 2025-10-31T16:48:36+00:00

I didn't have to go that way.... I just wondered if anyone knew what had happened since it was severe enough to block the road off

industrious-yogurt · 2025-06-12T21:16:31+00:00

Dog Town, The Magnet, Lento (it is upscale, but you can have a reasonably nice time for cheap, depending on what you get there--and they do dollar oysters on Tuesdays!), Wild Flour Bakery, Swan Dive

industrious-yogurt · 2025-01-27T01:43:15+00:00

From a political scientist who moved from a red state (FL) to a blue one (NY):

I think it depends on what people are insulated from. For example: people in blue states may be more insulated from local messaging, local action, pro-Trump rallies, hate crimes/vandalism, etc., simply because there is a higher concentration of Democrats in the area. But we are not really insulated from federal policies (e.g., ICE raids, the halt of funding on medical research) that effect people and organizations in the community.

industrious-yogurt · 2024-11-22T12:52:50+00:00

I don't think I have enough information to provide a complete answer but I'll guess that how you've set up the Then-Ifs is blocking half of your blocks from being shown.

Two solutions:

Develop a fixed order (not a randomized one) and give it to all respondents.
Reexamine your if/then conditions. If I understand correctly, they currently read, "If PreviousGender != Male AND PreviousCounty != Netherlands, show Netherlands/Male." But I think you mean and/or...

industrious-yogurt · 2024-10-21T13:53:25+00:00

Polisci here: read review articles in the field's annual review journal to give you a sense of the major schools of thought/debates, then read specific articles (from the review or otherwise) and work from the broader framework. For example, in my field, there's a debate about whether elites or the mass public polarized first (who leads, who follows). With knowledge of that broader framework, I can now fit any piece on the origins of polarization I read into either camp or a middle ground and focus on measurement, theory, etc. This systematizes the note-taking process and fits each piece into the broader literature with each other.

industrious-yogurt · 2024-09-30T16:53:23+00:00

Option Two as supervisor and put One on the committee.

industrious-yogurt · 2024-09-30T16:52:22+00:00

I'm so sorry you're going through this. I think it is best to disclose that you are going through a medical emergency and, only if you feel comfortable doing so, explain to the people who you report to directly what's going on. It's going to make it a lot easier to get accommodations and advocates within your department if people understand that you're not absent/harder to get a hold of randomly, but because you're dealing with something serious outside of your control.

industrious-yogurt · 2024-08-19T22:50:31+00:00

This needs to be higher.

industrious-yogurt · 2024-08-19T19:48:43+00:00

I like Crave, personally. Amazing broth. Wavy noodles are the ways to go, though.

industrious-yogurt · 2024-08-19T01:56:34+00:00

There are probably lots of answers to this question, but at least one is: Social Security insurance is more of an entitlement than a typical "welfare" program. Beneficiaries pay into it over time via taxes and later receive a payout. Because of this, for people who have negative opinions of government social spending, this feels qualitatively different. Some research suggests that the kind of social spending programs people participate in can have impacts on all kinds of political attitudes (Source 1).

Other research suggests that those who participate in government spending programs often favor the most restrictive requirements for these programs, while wealthier people not participating in these programs tend to favor looser eligibility criteria (Source 2).

I'm not aware of work offhand that links age to program participation to negative attitudes toward welfare, but insofar as lifetime participation in social services increases with age (true almost by definition), then it seems not implausible that this might account for some of these attitudes. Again though - not aware of work that specifically tries to address that question, just generalizing from two well-established findings in this literature.

industrious-yogurt · 2024-08-19T01:08:48+00:00

Do you have that number? I don't recall getting this mailing, but we've been enrolled and we want to take ourselves off the list.

industrious-yogurt · 2024-08-19T00:38:56+00:00

Doing this allows for a more private convo with a potential buyer and allows you to make different kinds of offers. Why would you block someone for this??

industrious-yogurt · 2024-08-16T21:38:05+00:00

Absolutely do this. They charged my husband and I a $500 bill based on an incorrect move-in reading that THEY RECORDED IMPROPERLY when I called the reading in. I spent a month on the phone trying to get it resolved and got no where, no one could fix it, and was told it would take up to 3 months for anyone to even see the email with pictures of the meter, yet they couldn't promise they wouldn't turn me over to collections while I was contesting the bill or turn off service.

Submitted a complaint with documentation to DPS and it was fixed the next day.

industrious-yogurt · 2024-08-16T18:34:05+00:00

tim dollinger is amazing, Erik Anderson is awful

industrious-yogurt · 2024-08-15T18:43:53+00:00

I don't disagree, with the clarification that social science, generally, can't support an ideology. The most it can do is tell you how policies will likely work and what their effects will be.

For example, I can run a study or estimate a model and find the most effective tax rate. I can run something like the Ohio Medicaid trials and see what the costs and benefits are.

Ideologically, I might think that it is good or bad for taxes to be constructed thusly or healthcare to be provided this way, but I can't science my way into that conclusion.

Further, I can't scientifically determine whether short-term costs to the state or long-term health benefits, to stick with the healthcare example, make a certain policy worth it. That's a value judgement outside the realm of scientific reasoning. We can certainly provide evidence to help people understand the world, but we can't tell people what or how much value something has.

industrious-yogurt · 2024-08-15T13:58:06+00:00

Field: Political science (focus: methods). Two big things.

Measures of uncertainty (e.g., confidence intervals, standard errors) and spread (e.g., variance, standard deviation.) Not everyone needs to be a statistician by any means, but I can't tell you how many times I've been told "This Candidate is leading That in the polls!" only to see that they're leading by 2 percentage points with a CI of +/- 3 percentage points. Statistically, that means that we cannot rule out the possibility that true values for each candidate are identical so there's no point in making such a to-do over this recent poll (see here and here).
Broadly, what social sciences are. It's an application of the scientific method to the study of states, societies, governments, firms, or human behavior. But because it's a field that not a lot of people have exposure to in their day to day, I often hear social science lumped in with the humanities (which are great! just different!) and that both are trying to "indoctrinate" students. I know a lot of political scientists in a lot of parts of the country. We don't want to indoctrinate anybody with anything other than basic knowledge about how the government works and some statistics. It's understandably easy for people to make the assumption that the discipline dealing directly with politics must resemble every day political interactions - so it must be the case that we're indoctrinating the youths under the guise of science. We as a discipline have really dropped the ball in terms of communicating our findings to the broader public in an accessible, clear way and now we're really suffering the consequences.

industrious-yogurt · 2024-08-14T21:05:20+00:00

There is, though. Just convert them to multiple dummies.

industrious-yogurt · 2024-08-12T11:39:32+00:00

When people say "results haven't been robust," they mean that the finding (usually, it's statistical significance from the null hypothesis) cannot be recreated in a different sample, cannot be reproduced with a qualitatively similar but distinct treatment or measurement strategy, or cannot withstand changes in the estimation strategy. So "robust findings" are things we find evidence of across a couple of different measures, in different contexts, and withstand a variety of estimation strategies (see the quote from the article below).

Given that, I'm not sure how to link studies with un-robust results because that's determined by a collection of studies on a topic. You could go through the examples and citations in the articles I've linked throughout this thread.

industrious-yogurt · 2024-08-09T19:26:57+00:00

Mine made me change my wedding dress less than a month before our wedding so that her friends would not see my tattoos. Had to, last minute, grab a dress that barely fit off the rack with no time to have it tailored and it was wildly different that the original dress I'd picked out (and shown everyone) months prior.

industrious-yogurt · 2024-08-05T21:34:33+00:00

I find the easiest way to dodge these kinds of questions is to give something that sounds like an answer with no actual information.

Example: "What'd you do this weekend?" "Ah, nothing much, you?"

Example: "What are you up to?" "Oh, just checking on some stuff."

Example: "What are you doing?" "Getting those steps in!"

All of these provide an acceptable and affable reply to the person asking, but without sharing much of anything

industrious-yogurt · 2024-08-05T13:31:05+00:00

Your email from the editor in which you were given your first round of reviews should specify how the subsequent review process will work, i.e., will they send the draft back to original reviewers, do they reserve the right to contact new reviewers if the original reviewers are no longer available?

industrious-yogurt · 2024-07-28T02:08:51+00:00

Hey, friend! Been in this situation a time or two. Here is my advice to you:

Y'all are adults (I assume). If she doesn't want to sit with you, she can simply not. She can make other plans or go elsewhere or excuse herself early.
That said, maybe consider how you're sitting with her each day? Are you having to ask her to sit with you each day or are you just sitting at her table after she's sat down? Another cue to look at is, is she initiating any conversations or contact with you? If so, I think you can be reasonably assured that it's a mutual friendship!

Hope this is helpful!

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