Robert Chung
@rchung.bsky.social
Anti-social social scientist with low amusement threshold.
When you do theoretical mathematical demography it's good to have a Plan B so I ride a bike.
When you do theoretical mathematical demography it's good to have a Plan B so I ride a bike.
Not a holiday but when I was in grad school I shared a house with a guy who was a little OCD and another of our housemates would purposefully cut pies and pizzas off-center.
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Not a holiday but when I was in grad school I shared a house with a guy who was a little OCD and another of our housemates would purposefully cut pies and pizzas off-center.
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Yes, we are trying to finish up a paper doing exactly that…(what we find is consistent with what Amanda describes; tracking a synthetic cohort over time we see impossible changes in the newest wave)
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Yes, we are trying to finish up a paper doing exactly that…(what we find is consistent with what Amanda describes; tracking a synthetic cohort over time we see impossible changes in the newest wave)
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Especially with nonresponse only rising...
By the way have you seen now bananas the newest NSFG data are? Impossible changes within cohorts from the last wave (way more than between waves before) - doubling rates of rareish time-invariant traits, reversals of monotonic increasing experiences, etc.
By the way have you seen now bananas the newest NSFG data are? Impossible changes within cohorts from the last wave (way more than between waves before) - doubling rates of rareish time-invariant traits, reversals of monotonic increasing experiences, etc.
November 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Especially with nonresponse only rising...
By the way have you seen now bananas the newest NSFG data are? Impossible changes within cohorts from the last wave (way more than between waves before) - doubling rates of rareish time-invariant traits, reversals of monotonic increasing experiences, etc.
By the way have you seen now bananas the newest NSFG data are? Impossible changes within cohorts from the last wave (way more than between waves before) - doubling rates of rareish time-invariant traits, reversals of monotonic increasing experiences, etc.
I'm still working on it.
November 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I'm still working on it.
It'll cost more than that to bring the ranking back up after DeSantis is gone. Pay on the way down, pay on the way back up.
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
It'll cost more than that to bring the ranking back up after DeSantis is gone. Pay on the way down, pay on the way back up.
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Oooookay, well, here you go if you're wondering the politics of the dissent:
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Oooookay, well, here you go if you're wondering the politics of the dissent:
I've been on both the patient privacy and patient safety side of the debate. HIPAA allows for "legitimate" research, and we can require info be collected (safety) while restricting its access (privacy)--except, evidently, under this administration. So I've been wrong a lot too.
November 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I've been on both the patient privacy and patient safety side of the debate. HIPAA allows for "legitimate" research, and we can require info be collected (safety) while restricting its access (privacy)--except, evidently, under this administration. So I've been wrong a lot too.