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A new poll on police attitudes and the Karen Read case reminds us of some interesting things about how the public answers surveys. Crossposted from Exhibit Asterisk. One of the more fun things I’ve done over the course of my career is spend some time designing and sending out survey questions. Survey methodology is a Continue reading Concealed vs Planted
Well it only took 3 weeks, but we ve successfully gotten through 12 years worth of AI summaries of TEAM newsletters. It was a fun trip down memory lane and sparked some fun conversations in my family about my grandfather, his work, and the past in general. It also sparked a pretty fun message from someone Continue reading Fifty Cents and a P.O. Box: the Wrap Up
Welcome back folks! It s time for my last recap in this series, though next week I do have a bit of a wrap up planned. A few things I want to note before we dive in to this week: Alright, let s get to the summaries! I ll turn it over to Claude: In 1982, James stepped Continue reading Fifty Cents and a P.O. Box: TEAM Newsletters 1982-1985
Welcome back! This week we re going back again to deep family lore, with our second look at the original stats blogger in the family my grandfather James King. I started out last week with the first 4 years of his quarterly stats newsletter, and now we ve moved in to the second 4 years. There will Continue reading Fifty Cents and a P.O. Box: TEAM Newsletters 1978-1981
Last week I had the idea to upload my grandfather s stats newsletter from the 70s and 80s in to AI and see what it could get out of it. This week I got a chance to do it, and let me tell you it was a far more frustrating process than I anticipated. It turns Continue reading Fifty Cents and a P.O. Box: TEAM Newsletters 1974-1977
I m in a rough stretch at work so no real post again this week, but I thought I d share something my dad sent me that he found in my grandfather s things. Apparently he used to send one out with each of his orders. He was the original stats blogger in the family, and I ve talked Continue reading Parkinson s Laws of Frustration
I ve had a long week so I don t have a lot of time for writing, but I had an interesting question come up in a group chat this week I thought I d throw out there for opinions: when do we think the 1950s will fade as a cultural touchpoint for us culturally? I still see Continue reading When Will the 50s Fade As a Cultural Touchstone?
Recently there was some interesting Twitter discourse around the perennial hot topic of todays overprotective parents, that basically revolved around the accusation that todays parents are hell bent on making themselves perennially miserable by keeping their kids too safe. This may be true as a parent myself I ve certainly seen many people go overboard. Continue reading Kids Are Safer Than Ever.…
I haven t added to the GPD Lexicon in a while, but I had a phrase come up recently that I realized I d been using mentally but had never actually used on this blog. It came up in the context of someone sending an insane statistic to a group chat that immediately all of us believed Continue reading Not Today, Satan Statistics
The AVI put up a post last week about the Extreme Male Brain Theory of Autism that had some interesting commentary about the differences between the sexes on tests measuring tendencies towards empathizing (female linked) and systematizing (male linked). Skipping over the relationship to autism theories, I was particularly interested in one part of his Continue reading Empathizing and…