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Apr 29, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Thanks to @rickhasen for spearheading this report on holding fair elections during a crisis. It was my pleasure to contribute (in a small way) along with a bevy of amazing co-authors. Some keys points in thread.
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law.uci.edu/faculty/full-t…
Media outlets need to do a lot of work to set expectations about how fair elections go - counting takes a long time, ensuring security takes a long time with mail-in ballots, *many elections should be considered too close to call on election day* - that's normal now
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We need many bipartisan groups working together... "to affirm a set of core principles
that should govern elections and warn against the erosion of core democratic norms."
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Leaders of all stripes should work against voter suppression. And, "Social media companies have a unique responsibility to prevent the use of their platforms for efforts that would suppress votes through the spread of
misinformation about voting."
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Ugh, and I forgot to use the hashtag, but will now! #FairElectionsCrisis

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Sep 14, 2023
Social beliefs, including those about gender, race, sexual orientation, fatness, and disability, impact science. Here’s a 🧵 of examples I find interesting and wanted to share. Feel free to add! I’m going to keep growing it over time.
The Lover's of Modena - two skeletons buried holding hands in ~5th CE - were long assumed to be a male and female. More recently it was determined they were two males. 1 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovers_of…
They were quite literally *seen* as a heterosexual couple because of our beliefs about gender and sexual orientation. Once the sexes were revealed folks tried to reinterpret the meaning of their hand holding - like, maybe they were soldiers who died together in battle? 2
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May 10, 2023
Out at last!! Do moral judgments impact COVID risk judgments? We find people think infection risk is lower when doing morally good things. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/artic…
With interdisciplinary team @weatherall_jim @daniel_relihan @AshleyJ_Thomas Kyle Stanford and Pete Ditto 2
Subjects read vignettes where COVID risk was kept fixed (Joe rode on an elevator with 5 strangers), but motivations and intentions varied (Joe wanted to help an aging neighbor/Joe wanted to buy cocaine) 3
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Oct 27, 2022
"I was so wrong", a 🧵. @KevinZollman argued that less connected groups of scientists might be more successful than more connected ones. They preserve a diversity of practices longer b/c they communicate less (and thus avoid herding onto a bad theory). 1 link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Co-authors and I critiqued this "Zollman effect" by arguing that it only shows up in a small portion of parameter space in his models. We argue that it thus likely doesn't apply in lots of cases, but that disconnection carries other harms. 2

cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Since then I've become convinced that the general phenomena is pervasive, robust, and very important. Across many models with different assumptions, some way of preserving a diversity of beliefs is crucial to epistemic success. 3
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May 8, 2021
New Paper! We find that subjects think you are less at risk of COVID infection when engaged in morally good actions, and more likely to catch COVID while doing morally bad things. In other words, risk judgments are systematically skewed.

osf.io/preprints/meta…
We present subjects with vignettes where the exposure is always identical, but the reasons for the exposure vary. I.e., Joe always gets caught in an elevator with neighbors, but might be headed out to buy drugs, or to help an elderly friend. 2
In two experiments we find risk is judged higher when moral valence of the action is judged lower. We got interested bc of infographics worried about fun outdoor activities like going to the beach or the pool, but not about drs/grocery stores. 3
texmed.org/TexasMedicineD…
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Sep 24, 2020
Threats to the ACA make me feel almost physically ill. Many non-Americans, or even wealthier citizens, don't know anything about living without health insurance. It is awful, even when you are young, healthy, and otherwise privileged.
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I grew up middle class, but after college didn't get the kind of job that provides health insurance. Who can afford to pay for it our of pocket? This began a four year period of mostly not having insurance.
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Once I needed to see a Dr. and called a clinic to ask what the price would be. They flat out refused to answer. "Depends what the doctor orders!" In the end I talked to a Dr. for about 25 minutes, with no other treatment. They charged $300 - a whole week's wages. 3
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Sep 14, 2020
Kino Zhao is finishing her dissertation this year in LPS. Let's have a little thread about her and her work. Here's Kino: Image
Her dissertation in the philosophy of social science is totally exciting. She looks carefully at the details of practice in different fields to think about successful methodology.
Her strong grasp on statistical and other formal methods allows her to think about how these methods are used, how they justify certain inferences etc. I would describe much of her work as using this lens to investigate claims in feminist philosophy of science.
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