The couch is the right choice. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505
505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Dec 9, 2020, 4:26 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > In my present state, I have just enough energy to claw myself to my > computer, and write a single pithy sentence. I so I think I will take up > adage-writing. Need HTML for best presentation: Here’s the > adage-of-the-day: > > > > 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] > > 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/ > > 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 > > > > 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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