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.
This is so familiar. Scientists go out of their way to separate the scientist in them from the ethical agent in them. And then hand over the latter to someone else
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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
Released on Navalny's 50th birthday, a free audiobook of his memoir "Patriot" (the Russian-lang version) features readings by his wife Yulia, daughter Daria, & son Zakhar, alongside anti-war Russian artists, journalists, & opposition figures now in exile. www.onebookpublishing.org/products/pat...
Alexey Navalny would have turned 50 today.
Q for Soc, Econ, etc.: I'm looking for a short piece (article or the like) on ethical issues connected to administrative data. Anything jump to mind?
one for your block finger (it's a chatGPT bot that autoreplies to posts with google search related text).