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Linkfest 2021-08-20: More Science Than You're Used To

DarwinCatholic: COVID Death Trends: The Young and the Old Are Okay Now My internet friend Brendan Hodge at Darwin Catholic shows us with CDC mortality data that the old and the young have largely returned to the pre-COVID trends. Well, the young never really left it. For those 65+ years

CDC Data on Vaccine Effectiveness in New York State

Yesterday, the CDC published New COVID-19 Cases and Hospitalizations Among Adults, by Vaccination Status — New York, May 3–July 25, 2021. The authors of this CDC study did what I suggested the authors of the Mayo-nference pre-print should have done. The CDC authors look at all the data for NY,

Breakthrough cases and the delta variant

I’ve had some discussions with people about the utility of vaccines against the variants of COVID-19. In general, my advice has been: mRNA vaccines will probably continue to provide the greatest protection, inactivated virus ones the least. I haven’t yet seen anything to alter that general advice. There

Locklin on the Big Five

Scott Locklin has a recent post up critical of the Big 5 theory of personality. I’ve said some nice things about the Big 5/OCEAN model ten years ago, but I cannot disagree with Locklin’s criticisms. Fundamentally, this kind of personality research seems to be going in the

The Long View 2008-01-10: Education for Failure & Fraud; Fort the Postmodernist; V-Objects; Yes We Can (Again); Taxes v. Contributions

John J. Reilly quotes Stefan Theil’s “Europe’s Philosophy of Failure”, but didn’t comment [in 2008] on this very neo-liberal declaration that catches my eye [in 2020]: In France and Germany, students are being forced to undergo a dangerous indoctrination. Taught that economic principles such as capitalism, free

What authors like versus what readers like

This week, under quarantine and working at home, I was pondering how any given author’s most popular work is popular for reasons other than what the author was interested in writing it for. The thread provided lots of excellent examples, like Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle [Amazon link], which

2017 OES Wages for the United States

Here is another post in my useful data series. This one is about wages in the United States, as collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is the data from 2017, which I am using because I have the percentile ranges translated into dollar amounts. This is interesting because