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11 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
editor: sometimes in fiction you just have to kill your darlings

jm barrie: well, that seems drastic
editor: well, I'm sure you'll find a way to make this pan out

barrie: but—
editor: you've just really got to have a good hook

barrie: i was envisioning more of a villain
editor: and you've gotta come up with a better name for the setting, or I'm afraid this'll never land

barrie: !

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13 Jul
would read: a comparative study on the quantity and engagement levels of posts on different social media platforms whose main premise is that the social media platform in question is bad
like, do people love tiktoking(?) that tiktok is awful as much as they do tweeting that twitter is awful
tiktalking?
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4 Jun
a story, as told by Google Trends

(usual caveats about extrapolating from search data apply; pizza is just a generally handy baseline)
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3 Jun
"They just showed up one day (Vol.)"
yes, the poll was conducted using CATI
was not intending this to serve as a callout for everybody's pet acquisition stories, but I can't say I'm mad about the outcome
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2 Jun
This is a really interesting mode experiment:
Given the partisan split here, it'd be really interesting to see (in a dream world of endless questionnaire space) something along the lines of "And about what share of other people in the [Democratic/Republican] Party do you think support the death penalty?" Image
(The hypothesis here being that, if it's a social desirability thing rather some other mode difference -- or sampling -- pro-death penalty Dems might be more reticent to express that view if they think they're in the minority within their own party.)
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2 Jun
Gallup, in a 1989 mail survey: "If you could have one of the following cartoon characters for a household pet, which one would you choose?" Image
The survey also asked people to pick their three favorite names for men and women.

Some top choices for first mention:
Michael (7%), John (5%), David (5%), William (5%), Robert (5%)

Mary (5%), Elizabeth (4%), Susan (3%)
Also, "To the best of your knowledge, what is your state official [flower/tree/song/motto]?"

I have some questions about the "Iowa Corn Song" and "You Have A Friend In Pennsylvania" ImageImageImageImage
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13 May
Here's a first look at the preliminary research into the 2020 general election polling error.

So far, it's most definitive in ruling out potential causes -- e.g. education weighting, late vote shift -- that *don't* seem to have been major factors.

cnn.com/2021/05/13/pol…
This is no surprise if you've been following discussions, but focus is coalescing around some form of differential non-response - that is, people who were polled are different from people who weren't, in a way current weighting didn't account for.

cnn.com/2021/05/13/pol…
For instance, even if a poll included the correct number of Republicans compared to the actual electorate, Republicans in the poll might have been less supportive of Trump than Republicans who weren't reached.
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