Ryan Briggs
@ryancbriggs
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Raising kids & bread & grant money. Cleaning data & diapers & fish. EA (bed nets not light cone). Social scientist. https://t.co/g8teKfCf91
Toronto, Ontario
Joined March 2007
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I don't know how this happened. 5000 years of glorious civilization, or maybe the placebo effect. hard to say.
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my wife had a cold today and we went past a herbal tea and traditional Chinese medicine shop in a food court so I got her a special tea for colds and then her cold went away 🤷‍♂️.
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Best I can tell Europe globally crushes most dessert types (cookies, cakes, laminated pastries, etc) but Asia (China?) kills them on dessert soup. It’s a whole category where Europe barely shows up.
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RT @Afinetheorem: I'm worried about universities. We *have to* be seen as neutral, truth-seeking, unbiased, rigorous; if not, public suppor….
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Singapore updates:.* sidewalks here are often split so half is near the houses or business and half is near the road, and the former is ambiguously private. I haven’t figured the norms out here.* bitter melon is very good.* had another phenomenal dessert “soup”.
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RT @GarrettPetersen: @CartoonsHateHer @jfischoff Income tax should be spread evenly across family members. A family of five with one $250k….
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Am I allowed to choose parenting?.
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This process is also happening in Canada, where the US is clearly pulling ahead. It doesn’t need to be this way of course, and in the recent past it wasn’t this way, but our aversion to competition is increasingly hurting us.
We were in Colorado last week and I was struck by what is now an enormous disparity in wealth between the US and the UK. Spent a couple of nights in a cabin in an RV park - it had pools, slides, mini golf etc, fun for the kids. But the place was packed with RVs worth hundreds
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RT @alexwcohen: We recently did “lookbacks” to see how well 2 recent @GiveWell grants met our initial expectations. 1 went better than exp….
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RT @MishaTeplitskiy: Do higher impact factor journals publish more credible papers? Seems so!. (2/2). paper: https:….
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RT @MishaTeplitskiy: How much misconduct/fraud is there in the academic literature? About 0.2% of papers get retracted, but that's obviousl….
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RT @itaisher: There are other examples where people use a similar trick, eg, everything is political. When you reframe it as a matter of d….
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It’s a similar problem to when people say that journalists cant be more or less objective (or excuse activism in the guise of journalism) because “true objectivity is impossible.” Matters of degree are still important!.
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I used to think this was a deep point, but I now think it’s trivial at best. Markets can be more or less free, and when people say they want “free markets” they’re saying that they want to move markets in a freer (less regulated) direction.
This is your regular reminder that there is no such thing as a free market. Markets are political constructs shaped by formal and informal institutions that embody certain rights and obligations.
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RT @thatMikeBishop: Most social scientists have never reflected on the epistemic virtues of forecasting.
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