{"id":5700,"date":"2019-09-20T18:38:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T02:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5700"},"modified":"2019-09-20T18:38:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T02:38:20","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-219","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/09\/20\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-219","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 219"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a>New stu\u00addents: if this is your first email from the Chi Alpha list, wel\u00adcome! Every Fri\u00adday I email out a com\u00adpi\u00adla\u00adtion of arti\u00adcles about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. My hope is that every\u00adone will find at least one link intrigu\u00ading enough to click through for more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the list\u2019s con\u00adtent isn\u2019t remote\u00adly like this, so even if this isn\u2019t your cup of tea be sure to stick around (although I\u2019ve heard rumors that some peo\u00adple stay on our list just for this Fri\u00adday email). Also pay atten\u00adtion to the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom \u2014 I real\u00adly mean them. And I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions, so if you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Lega\u00adcy and Ath\u00adlete Pref\u00ader\u00adences at Har\u00advard<\/a> (Peter Arcidi\u00ada\u00adcono, Josh Kinsler and Tyler Ran\u00adsom, link is a PDF of a work\u00ading paper): \u201cThe law\u00adsuit Stu\u00addents For Fair Admis\u00adsions v. Har\u00advard Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty<\/em> pro\u00advid\u00aded an unprece\u00addent\u00aded look at how an elite school makes admis\u00adsions deci\u00adsions. Using pub\u00adlicly-released reports, we exam\u00adine the pref\u00ader\u00adences Har\u00advard gives for recruit\u00aded ath\u00adletes, lega\u00adcies, those on the dean\u2019s inter\u00adest list, and chil\u00addren of fac\u00adul\u00adty and staff (ALD\u00adCs). Among white admits, over 43% are ALDC. Among admits who are African Amer\u00adi\u00adcan, Asian Amer\u00adi\u00adcan, and His\u00adpan\u00adic, the share is less than 16% each. Our mod\u00adel of admis\u00adsions shows that rough\u00adly three quar\u00adters of white ALDC admits would have been reject\u00aded if they had been treat\u00aded as white non-ALD\u00adCs. Remov\u00ading pref\u00ader\u00adences for ath\u00adletes and lega\u00adcies would sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant\u00adly alter the racial dis\u00adtri\u00adb\u00adu\u00adtion of admit\u00adted stu\u00addents, with the share of white admits falling and all oth\u00ader groups ris\u00ading or remain\u00ading unchanged.\u201d The lead author is an econ pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at Duke.<\/li>\n
  2. Too Much Dark Mon\u00adey in Almonds<\/a> (Scott Alexan\u00adder, Slate Star Codex): \u201cEvery\u00adone always talks about how much mon\u00adey there is in pol\u00adi\u00adtics. This is the wrong fram\u00ading. The right fram\u00ading is Ansolabehere et al\u2019s: why is there so lit\u00adtle<\/em> mon\u00adey in pol\u00adi\u00adtics? But Ansolabehere focus\u00ades on elec\u00adtions, and the mys\u00adtery is wider than that. Sure, dur\u00ading the 2018 elec\u00adtion, can\u00addi\u00addates, par\u00adties, PACs, and out\u00adsiders com\u00adbined spent about $5 bil\u00adlion \u2013 $2.5 bil\u00adlion on Democ\u00adrats, $2 bil\u00adlion on Repub\u00adli\u00adcans, and $0.5 bil\u00adlion on third par\u00adties. And although that sounds like a lot of mon\u00adey to you or me, on the nation\u00adal scale, it\u2019s puny. The US almond indus\u00adtry earns $12 bil\u00adlion per year. Amer\u00adi\u00adcans spent about 2.5x as much on almonds as on can\u00addi\u00addates last year.\u201d It builds to a sur\u00adpris\u00ading twist. High\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded.<\/li>\n
  3. I nor\u00admal\u00adly avoid two links from one author, but every once in a while some\u00adone is on fire. Against Against Pseudoad\u00addic\u00adtion<\/a> (Scott Alexan\u00adder, Slate Star Codex): \u201cLet me con\u00adfess: I think pseudoad\u00addic\u00adtion is real. In fact, I think it\u2019s obvi\u00adous\u00adly<\/em> real. I think every\u00adone should real\u00adize it\u2019s real as soon as it\u2019s explained prop\u00ader\u00adly to them. I think we should be ter\u00adri\u00adfied that any of our insti\u00adtu\u00adtions \u2013 media, acad\u00ade\u00admia, what\u00adev\u00ader \u2013 think they could pos\u00adsi\u00adbly get away with claim\u00ading pseudoad\u00addic\u00adtion isn\u2019t real. I think peo\u00adple should be tak\u00ading to the streets try\u00ading to over\u00adthrow a med\u00adical sys\u00adtem that has the slight\u00adest doubt about whether pseudoad\u00addic\u00adtion is real. If you can think of more hyper\u00adbol\u00adic state\u00adments about pseudoad\u00addic\u00adtion, I prob\u00ada\u00adbly believe those too.\u201d I am ful\u00adly per\u00adsuad\u00aded by this arti\u00adcle. <\/li>\n
  4. \u2018I Basi\u00adcal\u00adly Just Made It Up\u2019: Con\u00adfes\u00adsions of a Social Con\u00adstruc\u00adtion\u00adist<\/a> (Christo\u00adpher Dum\u00admitt, Quil\u00adlette): \u201cIn my defence, I wasn\u2019t alone. Every\u00adone was (and is) mak\u00ading it up. That\u2019s how the gen\u00adder-stud\u00adies field works. But it\u2019s not much of a defence. I should have known bet\u00adter. If I were to retroac\u00adtive\u00adly psy\u00adcho\u00adan\u00ada\u00adlyze myself, I would say that, real\u00adly, I did<\/em> know bet\u00adter. And that\u2019s why I was so angry and assertive about what I thought I knew. It was to hide the fact that, at a very basic lev\u00adel, I didn\u2019t have proof for part of what I was say\u00ading. So I stuck to the argu\u00adments with fer\u00advor, and denounced alter\u00adna\u00adtive points of view.\u201d The author is a his\u00adto\u00adri\u00adan at Trent Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty (in Cana\u00adda). <\/li>\n
  5. The Chris\u00adt\u00adian Right Is Help\u00ading Dri\u00adve Lib\u00ader\u00adals Away From Reli\u00adgion<\/a> (Amelia Thom\u00adson-DeVeaux and Daniel Cox, FiveThir\u00adtyEight): \u201cResearchers haven\u2019t found a com\u00adpre\u00adhen\u00adsive expla\u00adna\u00adtion for why the num\u00adber of reli\u00adgious\u00adly unaf\u00adfil\u00adi\u00adat\u00aded Amer\u00adi\u00adcans has increased over the past few years \u2014 the shift is too large and too com\u00adplex. But a recent swell of social sci\u00adence research sug\u00adgests that even if pol\u00adi\u00adtics wasn\u2019t the sole cul\u00adprit, it was an impor\u00adtant con\u00adtrib\u00adu\u00adtor.\u201d\n