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Not really. The research seems to be relatively novel, not a watered down version of a different study being repeated by children as your comment would suggest. My point was that t…

That study looks like it was done by an undergrad and isn't peer reviewed. It is interesting, but probably should be taken with a grain of salt.

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The decisions you are trying to make seem to be based more off of anxiety and/or fear rather than a passion for what you want to be doing with your life. Try to find out what you w…

I’m not buying this. I ride the light rail in Minneapolis a fair amount and others on it don’t look or act rich at all. In fact the express bus I frequently take seems to be full o…

Whimsical inventiveness is the one thing that keeps me enjoying the art of programming. There's a tension in programming between being verbosity and ingenuity. More flexible langua…

It's not really my area of expertise, but from what I understand it will severely limit what policy and demographic research can be done with the data. There's a working paper on t…

Blatant plug: for large scale analysis on census and survey data I'd recommend checking out nhgis.org. It lets you download the large pieces of demographic data that you may be int…

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I really like Sandi Metz as a speaker, and am pretty sure she has thought about these problems much deeper than I have. However, I often find myself wondering if most of the proble…