Absolutely brilliant idea for an investigation and completely enraging findings.

https://twitter.com/melissakorn/status/1413136755096653850

The parallels between for-profits and prestigious grad programs are closer than you might think because, more so than many bachelor's degrees, MAs are supposed to open up employment and earnings opportunities in a specific, often hard-to-succeed-in field.

Great piece from @KelseyTuoc on the vaccines' remarkable success preventing death and serious illness, which has gotten somewhat lost in the convo about efficacy. vox.com/22273502/covid… I wonder how much of this is driven by the mindset of the past year — the drive, among people who take the pandemic seriously and are able to lock down, to avoid getting Covid-19 at all costs

I got curious about why the places on the vaccine leaderboard are weighted toward territories and new states, so I did what any normal person would do: I painstakingly constructed an excel chart of several different variables to calculate correlations Turns out the correlation between "efficient vaccine distribution" and "recency of statehood" is much greater than population or land area!