Gotcha.. maybe good statistical work in the social sciences is about making unknown unknowns into known unknowns, which, at least to us, feels a lot like propagating more uncertainty? The minimum wage work by Dube and folks is a good example here. Dumb reductions becoming smart ambiguity

I think about this paper by Lily Hu a lot on the latter www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/dir...

What do you mean? As in they are useful in discerning relationships or disentangling phenomena? Or do you just mean that the data are so abstracted, both philosophically and in practice that they just don't reflect meaningful boundaried phenomena at all? Or something else?

Excellent, thank you

Cites? Very curious about this

Burger night in America with David Roth is an all time podcast episode

Very excited to read this, thanks for flagging here

BIG moment too

The question dozens of us are asking after tonight

Jake Romm's Elements of Anti Semitism carries this argument through the inverted anti semitisms of the Israeli state, might be a good starting point

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Deploy troops everywhere -- the paper of record

Brother I literally had to scramble back down the feed when my brain registered "was that a Daladier reference?"

Citations?

That doesn't mean blindly adopting the tools, it means asking how potential alliances change now that these tools are coming, it means re-evaluating where we can best save meaning from capitalism, it means asking serious questions about how we find (and make) potential for the good life in the bad