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Matt Hardy @mdahardy.bsky.social

Sam Zhang @samzhang.bsky.social

Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social

Jake Hofman jakehofman.com

Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social

To be clear, I would agree with you even if removing yourself from consideration didn't change the hired applicant quality at all. But this is just a cherry on top, to say that it can make a difference, sometimes more than others

Yes! Personal distaste aside, suppose N candidates apply, with quality drawn from some distribution, and the employer hires the highest quality applicant (stupid devil's advocate assumptions). Then removing yourself from consideration will still lower the expected quality of the hire, which is good.

I feel very brave just being the only person to like your post Jeff! May that be a courageous example for you in dealing with your coffee pot spider

Wait weren't you asking about D3? But this makes me realize that an R interface to webweb could be a hit. It has python and matlab right now.

Also you can export your network as json and put it in directly, if you just want a screenshot. See the dropdown menu: webwebpage.github.io/docs/example...

plugging some work from labmates, led by @danlarremore.bsky.social -- do you know about webweb? webwebpage.github.io

I went to Swarthmore (where Tim Burke, author of the OP blog post, teaches), and I participated on some consultant-run focus groups even as an undergrad! Maybe there tend to be fixed numbers of consultants per university, so at small colleges the ratio is higher...

I like this framing a lot, and use it in slides when describing the difference between these two types of uncertainty

what about Amia Srinivasan's "The Right to Sex"? my teenaged self would have loved it, I think, and maybe it would have sped up my political development by like a decade...

also this seems relevant! bsky.app/profile/ecoe...

hat tip @aaronclauset.bsky.social

I agree it's not the reporters who are lazy -- reporters are extraordinarily overworked after all -- but also it's not because of the "ignorant populace" either, which would be blaming the victim. Instead, people become ignorant when journalism (and education, etc) gets gutted for profit