These authors wanted to know whether people with physical disabilities face discrimination in hiring: even when they are equally qualified.
So they ran an experiment.
John Holbein
As Hitchens said “the greatly overpraised Oliver Wendell Holmes…”
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Felt compelled to post this great review on IPV - a devastating and important topic that gets surprisingly little attention given how prevalent it is, even in advanced democracies. A lot of low-hanging fruit for empirical researchers.
Apropos of nothing, family control studies of more than 2 million Swedish children find no effect of prenatal acetaminophen exposure on subsequent autism diagnosis.
Authors conclude prior observational findings likely due to confounding.
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"If people with disabilities are not in public life, then they are out of the public’s mind and not seen as a group of people whose needs must be addressed but a problem that must be hidden." @ericmgarcia.bsky.social on Newsom's & Trump's dyslexia fumbles:
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The pretty draft is now online.
Link to paper (free): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
Our replication package starts from the raw data and we put real work into making it readable & setting it up so people could poke at it, so please do explore it: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
Everywhere you look there is an opening for leadership.
What an irony that the Democratic consultant-pundit class fell into a poll-following Popularist obsession at a time of such volatility
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Violence against women occurs at high rates in societies across the world. The most common form is intimate partner violence, abuse perpetrated against a spouse or intimate relationship partner. We pr...
This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.
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Eric Garcia: Neither Trump nor Newsom talks about dyslexia with the care and nuance the topic deserves
RIP D'Angelo. Will be spinning this today in memory of one of the all time greats.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism
Love this. Why do people identify strongly with stigmatized social groups/categories? Identification is more about making sense of the self (meaning) than it is about feeling "good" about the self (esteem)
Tomorrow marks 99 years since Buck v. Bell, the infamous and much criticized U.S. Supreme Court opinion written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. finding Virginia’s eugenical sterilization law constitutionally valid.
Paul A. Lombardo
"While ingroup evaluation may not always be positive, this does not preclude strong ingroup identification."
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