I'll be presenting this work at PSA (San Diego, Nov 2026).
The question is how to think about "formative" (aggregate) constructs and their empirical measurements in the social sciences (e.g., socio-economic status).
The standard view (e.g., Borsboom 2005) requires constructs to be causes of...
I hate to repeat myself but summaries of texts are summaries for a purpose. A summary of Carnap’s Aufbau is different if the summary is for (a) what it says about epistemology, (b) its account of philosophy per se, (c) its place in the history of analytic philosophy, etc. THE summary doesn’t exist.
Indeed. I also hate that the evidence of harm to adults is treated asymmetrically because taking phones off adults is not on the agenda. It’s an exercise in control dressed up as care
I finally got round to reading properly @alondra.bsky.social's outstanding essay on implications of AI for social science: www.amacad.org/sites/defaul... - highly recommended