ef110econ.bsky.social
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This paper investigates the impact of in-person discussions on political polarization. It finds that talking with a like-minded person increased ideological polarization, while talking with contrary-minded people reduced negative stereotypes and might enhance social cohesion.
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@liamdelaney2025.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/just... oh oh
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Lionel Page shows, support has flipped along education and income lines:
We live in interesting times...
bsky.app/profile/lion...
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Behavioral science has some interventions that can help with this as we show in this review paper here but I agree with this new report on the need for measurement and guarantees.
www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/...
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If you're a policy maker and you have huge energy saving goals (like every major western government does), this means you could meet all of your unrealistic projected targets AND STILL FAIL to meet your goals.
Measurement MUST be part of these programs we are asking taxpayers to pay billions for!
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Not every analysis of multiple (<whatever>) requires multiplicity adjustments (correcting p-values for multiple testing):
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Interesting! Seems like a key evidence gap. It will be a much easier journey towards targets if installers have a meaningful incentive to try and encourage consumers to switch.
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Would love to read this, do you have a non gated version anywhere?
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@martinhagger.bsky.social & me contend that individual-level (“i-frame”) intervention strategies can be appropriately integrated with system-level (“s-frame”) strategies to optimize population-level behavior change doi.org/10.1017/S014...
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Is there any research looking at profitability of heat pump installs vs gas/oil boiler installs for installers?
Boilers obviously much cheaper upfront for customers. Existing installers have many incentives to recommend boilers. What does profit / margin look like for installers here?
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Steve: prior to the research, we had no idea whether home buyers would respond to this information in the app/website. The counterfactual is FEMA SFHA maps (which are not helpful for consumers) and the FSF data was actually available online to all! We just made it salient in the house search and
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Are there any meta analyses on this that you aware of?
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Yes, thank you!!
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Replied in comments somewhere! 430am bain not working well!
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+ make a pledge about reducing bullying.
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[PDF] rug.nl
And
research.rug.nl/files/109636...
I actually can't remember the original studies I am thinking of but a quick Google scholar shows stuff like this.
I think the original study I'm thinking of asked kids to map their friend networks and then asked key nodes to attend a training
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could work given they have the social graph data to start with. Identify not just the biggest offenders but the offenders with the most 'influence' and target resources there rather than rolling out less intensive interventions to everyone.
Would love to see work in this vein.
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Sense to create intensive anti bullying interventions, give them to kids who are key nodes and let the effect propagate through the network. It seems like T&S teams at tech companies focused on misinformation and hate should be researching whether a similar strategy
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If you call it the o-frame, you can summarize the three frames as iOS..the operating system of behavior. Please send Neeson after me for that.
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@liamdelaney2025.bsky.social @mhallsworth.bsky.social and others would love to hear your thoughts! END