Interesting reads
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What our Google searches reveal: Everybody Lies
Data scientist and economist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, formerly of Google, has pored over the unfathomably large body of data concerning when, where and what people search on Google around the world. In his book Everybody Lies, he reports insights about what people are really thinking and feeling.
An interesting excerpt that ties in with what I tell people why I don't care about certain events or things:
What are you looking for in the data now?
I’m researching anxiety. I’ve become obsessed with it, because there are lot of things in the data that are really, really surprising. I’ll give you one example: When Trump was running for president, he was saying a lot of scary things. Pretty much all my friends and family members and liberal people said they’re terrified. Now, if you look at the data in parts of the United States that are really liberal, you don’t see an uptick in searches for panic attacks or anxiety or anything like that.
(Maybe) people don’t Google anxiety about Trump, even if they’re really anxious. I’d be really surprised by that. The second possibility is people have a fixed amount of anxiety — they would have been anxious about their jobs or their kids, but now they’re anxious about Trump. That would be a revolutionary change in how we think about anxiety. The third possibility is that people exaggerate how anxious they are about Trump because it’s politically correct, when they tend to actually be much more anxious about their own personal situation. But you don’t bother your friends with that. You sound like a good person if you’re anxious about Trump. -
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The story of when we were soldiers with the horrible ending that wasn't in the film
https://www.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2008/05/16/vietnam-story
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
@Stockcar86 said in Interesting reads:
I struggled with that one , was interesting though.
I'm a bit of a part time biology nerd due to some mates from Uni, but was still a bit heavy going
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
The story of when we were soldiers with the horrible ending that wasn't in the film
https://www.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2008/05/16/vietnam-story
That's a fucking good read.
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@NTA said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
The story of when we were soldiers with the horrible ending that wasn't in the film
https://www.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2008/05/16/vietnam-story
That's a fucking good read.
The book is excellent ,particularly the part about the horrible ending. I sent my copy to TR. This guy is on the cover. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2001/10/28/a-tower-of-courage/c53e8244-3754-440f-84f8-51f841aff6c8/?utm_term=.c423241d84f6
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@Tim said in Interesting reads:
Operation Car Wash: Is this the biggest corruption scandal in history?
We'll know Renewable Energy has made it when they've got corruption like that
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I find Karl DuFresne a bit hit and miss, sometimes I read his pieces and know he's capable of better because I've seen him do some great stuff but I thought this one was quite good.
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The China Shock: Learning from Labor-Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade
China’s emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about how labor markets adjust to trade shocks. Alongside the heralded consumer benefits of expanded trade are substantial adjustment costs and distributional consequences. These impacts are most visible in the local labor markets in which the industries exposed to foreign competition are concentrated. Adjustment in local labor markets is remarkably slow, with wages and labor-force participation rates remaining depressed and unemployment rates remaining elevated for at least a full decade after the China trade shock commences. Exposed workers experience greater job churning and reduced lifetime income. At the national level, employment has fallen in U.S. industries more exposed to import competition, as expected, but offsetting employment gains in other industries have yet to materialize. Better understanding when and where trade is costly, and how and why it may be beneficial, are key items on the research agenda for trade and labor economists.
Tyler Cowen commented:
This is some of the most important work done by economists in the last twenty years.