[FRIAM] one adage a day.

[Frank Wimberly]

The couch is the right choice.

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On Wed, Dec 9, 2020, 4:26 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> In my present state, I have just enough energy to claw myself to my
> computer, and write a single pithy sentence.  I so I think I will take up
> adage-writing.  Need HTML for best presentation:  Here’s the
> adage-of-the-day:
>
>
>
> Never explain yourself: you don’t know a damn thing about yourself, and
> everybody Else already knows more than they want to know.
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>
>
> Back to the couch,
>
>
>
> Nick
>
> Nicholas Thompson
>
> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
>
> Clark University
>
> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
>
> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *David Eric Smith
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 9, 2020 7:25 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* [FRIAM] More on social mobility
>
>
>
> To continue to try to add raw material to the discussion that EricC took
> up on this when I made some overly-simple claims earlier, here is a
> Brookings summary article on work by Raj Chetty (cited in the earlier
> thread as well):
>
>
> https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2018/01/11/raj-chetty-in-14-charts-big-findings-on-opportunity-and-mobility-we-should-know/
>
> A thing I find striking in Chetty’s output is how many compilations he can
> produce that make statistical analysis superfluous.  There are data that
> are so close to a perfect line that there is little for a regression to do,
> or that are so consistent with time-constancy that there is no suggestion
> of a signal to look for other than stasis.  A lot of it seems to come from
> finding good conditions on which to bin data, though the bin categories do
> not seem highly artificial or cherry-picked, to me.
>
>
>
> I got to the above from an article by Edsall that, again, seems to me
> well-sourced:
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/opinion/trump-social-status-resentment.html
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>
>
> So probably necessary to refuse to speak in sound-bites about income or
> wealth mobility, and to use more complete sentences that refer to specific
> conditions, even though if one has that granularity, there are
> interpretations of the sound-bite that mobility has been badly impaired
> that still seem correct, to me.
>
>
>
> EricS
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