R. Gordon Rinderknecht
@rgordonr.bsky.social
Behavioral scientist, previously at RAND and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Time use/social isolation/social media/survey methods. Opinions are my own. More info at: rgordonr.com
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Long Doan, @lsayer.bsky.social, and I have a new paper comparing the time use patterns of MTurk and Prolific respondents, and we show how they both differ from contemporaneous data collected by the American Time Use Survey (ATUS): journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Over the past two decades, online news headlines have become longer, more negative, and increasingly use features linked to clickbait. This shift is widespread across outlets of all political leanings and journalistic quality.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The evolution of online news headlines - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - The evolution of online news headlines
www.nature.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Over the past two decades, online news headlines have become longer, more negative, and increasingly use features linked to clickbait. This shift is widespread across outlets of all political leanings and journalistic quality.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Pro-AfD posts dominated the partisan content we were shown from accounts we didn't follow on TikTok and X" jumpshare.com/s/tqzgE7gQ2Q...
February 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"Pro-AfD posts dominated the partisan content we were shown from accounts we didn't follow on TikTok and X" jumpshare.com/s/tqzgE7gQ2Q...
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Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
February 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
Reposted by R. Gordon Rinderknecht
New today:
Death rates for Americans aged 25-44 have been rising since 2010. Their mortality is now 70% higher than it would be had pre-2011 mortality declines continued.
w Rafeya Raquib, Katie Berry, Keeley Morris, & @astokespop.bsky.social
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jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Death rates for Americans aged 25-44 have been rising since 2010. Their mortality is now 70% higher than it would be had pre-2011 mortality declines continued.
w Rafeya Raquib, Katie Berry, Keeley Morris, & @astokespop.bsky.social
1/
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
January 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
New today:
Death rates for Americans aged 25-44 have been rising since 2010. Their mortality is now 70% higher than it would be had pre-2011 mortality declines continued.
w Rafeya Raquib, Katie Berry, Keeley Morris, & @astokespop.bsky.social
1/
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Death rates for Americans aged 25-44 have been rising since 2010. Their mortality is now 70% higher than it would be had pre-2011 mortality declines continued.
w Rafeya Raquib, Katie Berry, Keeley Morris, & @astokespop.bsky.social
1/
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Purging vital public data at CDC. How it started (yesterday from wayback machine), how it's going www.cdc.gov/yrbs/index.h...
January 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Purging vital public data at CDC. How it started (yesterday from wayback machine), how it's going www.cdc.gov/yrbs/index.h...
Reposted by R. Gordon Rinderknecht
Long Doan, @lsayer.bsky.social, and I have a new paper comparing the time use patterns of MTurk and Prolific respondents, and we show how they both differ from contemporaneous data collected by the American Time Use Survey (ATUS): journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
January 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Long Doan, @lsayer.bsky.social, and I have a new paper comparing the time use patterns of MTurk and Prolific respondents, and we show how they both differ from contemporaneous data collected by the American Time Use Survey (ATUS): journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
Reposted by R. Gordon Rinderknecht
Young in their teens and 20s, especially men, are spending more time alone than in previous generations. They ""now hang out about as much as someone 10 years older than them did in the past."
Interesting data from @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/2305...
Interesting data from @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/2305...
January 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Young in their teens and 20s, especially men, are spending more time alone than in previous generations. They ""now hang out about as much as someone 10 years older than them did in the past."
Interesting data from @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/2305...
Interesting data from @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/2305...
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Good Thursday Morning to Everyone! Im super excited to share this fresh out article "Looking beyond marital status: What we can learn from relationship status measures" with @gaylekaufman.bsky.social Open access at JMF: doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
July 11, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Good Thursday Morning to Everyone! Im super excited to share this fresh out article "Looking beyond marital status: What we can learn from relationship status measures" with @gaylekaufman.bsky.social Open access at JMF: doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
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New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇
November 28, 2024 at 7:07 PM
New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇
Having just jumped ship from Twitter/X, perhaps now is a good time to repost my thoughts on social media transparency (which Bluesky does right) and disinformation: thehill.com/opinion/tech...
#disinformation
#disinformation
There’s less social media transparency and, likely, more disinformation
Recent declines in transparency may blind researchers and the public to the impact of other changes in the social media ecosystem altering how disinformation is being spread, including the continui…
thehill.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:54 PM
Having just jumped ship from Twitter/X, perhaps now is a good time to repost my thoughts on social media transparency (which Bluesky does right) and disinformation: thehill.com/opinion/tech...
#disinformation
#disinformation