Nick - Nice complement to "Your opinion of me is none of my business".
- Steve > > > Never explain yourself: you don’t know a damn thing about yourself, > and everybody Else already knows more than they want to know. > > > > Back to the couch, > > > > Nick > > Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> > > > > > > *From:* Friam <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *David Eric Smith > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 9, 2020 7:25 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [FRIAM] More on social mobility > > > > To continue to try to add raw material to the discussion that EricC > took up on this when I made some overly-simple claims earlier, here is > a Brookings summary article on work by Raj Chetty (cited in the > earlier thread as well): > > https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2018/01/11/raj-chetty-in-14-charts-big-findings-on-opportunity-and-mobility-we-should-know/ > <https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2018/01/11/raj-chetty-in-14-charts-big-findings-on-opportunity-and-mobility-we-should-know/> > > A thing I find striking in Chetty’s output is how many compilations he > can produce that make statistical analysis superfluous. There are > data that are so close to a perfect line that there is little for a > regression to do, or that are so consistent with time-constancy that > there is no suggestion of a signal to look for other than stasis. A > lot of it seems to come from finding good conditions on which to bin > data, though the bin categories do not seem highly artificial or > cherry-picked, to me. > > > > I got to the above from an article by Edsall that, again, seems to me > well-sourced: > > https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/opinion/trump-social-status-resentment.html > <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/opinion/trump-social-status-resentment.html> > > > > So probably necessary to refuse to speak in sound-bites about income > or wealth mobility, and to use more complete sentences that refer to > specific conditions, even though if one has that granularity, there > are interpretations of the sound-bite that mobility has been badly > impaired that still seem correct, to me. > > > > EricS > > > > > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
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