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Take The 2025 ACX Survey

Astral Codex Ten • 7157 implied HN points • 20 Dec 24
🚌 Education Surveys Psychology Research Findings Incentives
  1. There's a reader survey available that helps understand who reads the blog and explore psychological findings. It's like a fun way to learn more about people's interests.
  2. Taking the survey will take around 20 to 30 minutes, and participants have a chance to win a free one-year subscription. It's a nice incentive to get more people involved.
  3. The survey closes on January 5, so it's important to fill it out before then to make your voice heard.

Glenn Loury, Confucius, The Cost of Luxury Beliefs

Rob Henderson's Newsletter • 1685 implied HN points • 06 Mar 24
🎙 Podcasts Interviews Recommendations Events Findings
  1. Success is about training, mentorship, rigor, and standards, not just representation or diversity programs.
  2. A book event in San Francisco is happening on March 7 at 8VC, with limited space available for registration.
  3. Interesting findings include preferences of both men and women in partners, historical insights on human evolution and chewing, and marriage rates by income quintile in the US.

Oxford Literary Festival, 4 Kinds of Luck, Orgasm Rates

Rob Henderson's Newsletter • 94 implied HN points • 19 Mar 24
📚 Literature Events Book Reviews Findings Reading List
  1. Rob Henderson will be speaking at book events in London, Oxford, and at Yale, discussing his memoir 'Troubled' and engaging with the audience.
  2. Luck plays a significant role in entrepreneurship, with four different kinds of luck identified by Marc Andreessen.
  3. Orgasm rates for women vary depending on the relationship type, ranging from 11% in most recent hookups to 67% in relationships lasting 6+ months.

Part 2: Measuring 'noise' when assessing school shooting threats

School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports • 0 implied HN points • 23 Apr 24
🚌 Education Research Survey Threat assessment Methods Findings
  1. Noise refers to the unwanted variability in decisions made by experts when looking at the same information, leading to inconsistent decisions.
  2. The 'noise' audit process involves creating fictional scenarios and survey questions to measure the undesirable variability in decision-making when assessing threats.
  3. The study involved sending a survey to law enforcement practitioners who rated fictitious school shooting threat vignettes and selected response actions, aiming to understand how 'noise' impacts threat assessment.

K-12 SSDB data used in top academic journal article

School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports • 0 implied HN points • 22 Dec 23
🚌 Education Research Analysis Findings
  1. Getting an article published in top-tier academic journals like Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, and Science Advances is crucial for a researcher's career.
  2. The study discussed in the post analyzed how NRA donations at county-level are affected by school shootings, showing a significant increase.
  3. Research findings highlighted that school shootings lead to increased NRA donations, with higher impact when there are more fatalities, and donations continue for years after the incident.
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