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The Cognitive Rambler 3 weeks ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wkuxgensr4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wkuxgensr4&lc=UgxCk4eHxjkSUnCRxt54AaABAg https://youtu.be/Xym3kFuBX3Y I see Glenn & John, I watch. To comment on what it is; John's awesome, yes, but it's just the chemistry you two have in conversation. You have a lot of mutual respect, but also a lot of area where you guys are able to disagree. You guys are exemplars of debate done right where your pluralism of ideas doesn't get in the way of your friendship, mutual respect, and earnest willingness to listen to each other. There is a physiological basis for the high mortality in the black community. Chronic vitamin D deficiency is a cause for many preexisting conditions, including hypertension, asthma, and heart disease. You cannot make vitamin D during the fall and winter if you live at latitudes above the 37th parallel(NYC, Chicago, etc...). Plus, dark skinned people need up t...

 Sander Greenland https://sci-hub.tw/10.1136/jech-2011-200459 ABSTRACT Values influence choice of methodology and thus influence every risk assessment and inference. To deal with this inescapable reality, we need to replace vague and unattainable calls for objectivity with more precise operational qualities. Among qualities that seem widely valued are transparency (openness) and neutrality (balance, fairness). Conformity of researchers to these qualities may be evaluated by considering whether their reports disclose key information desired by readers and whether their methodology encourages initial neutrality among hypotheses of concern. A case study is given in which two authors appearing to share these values and writing on ostensibly the same issues (disclosure and methodology) nonetheless appear to have very different concepts of what the values entail in practice. Thus, more precision is needed in explicating and implementing such values. NTRODUCTION A major assumption und...

by John Anderer Share Tweet ITHACA, N.Y. —  Marriage rates have steadily declined over the past few decades, and now researchers from Cornell University are offering up a possible explanation: there just aren’t as many economically-attractive men for  unmarried women  to meet as there used to be. Previous studies had attempted to answer why marriage rates are on the decline, but most focused solely on gender ratio discrepancies as opposed to looking into the specific socioeconomic characteristics that make a particular man and woman a  good match. First, the study’s authors examined data collected on recent marriages between 2007-2012 and 2013-2017, gathered as part of the American Community Survey’s cumulative 5-year marriage statistics. That data was used to estimate the financial and sociodemographic characteristics of unmarried women’s potential husbands by creating economic profiles that resembled real husbands who had married comparable women. These potential h...