New piece on the protest vote bias: Why protest voting (voting for a 3rd party with no chance or not voting at all) could be due to cognitive errors theconversation.com/so-you-dont-...
If youāre an unhappy voter and want other unhappy voters to hold their noses and vote for the major candidate they least dislike, think about the Golden Rule.
Better to stay on and not let it become a complete echo chamber, and just not click on any ads? (Maybe even boycott advertisers?)
When entrepreneurship surged early in the pandemic, many economists were dismissive, thinking the new businesses would prove short-lived. Instead, the boom continued -- and now many of those startups are hiring and fueling the economic recovery. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/b...
A record surge in new businesses has helped drive job growth, and could have longer-term benefits.
In this as in all things, satisficing FTW
I am not often blown away by a paper in the American Economic Review, but genuinely gobsmacked here. The causal chain here is veterinary use of a painkiller that's toxic to vultures -> vulture populations collapse -> higher human mortality from unscavenged carcasses. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Not just pundits en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_c...
This is a very good thread and you should read it. The past 24 hours has seen all the worst kind of piling-on, groupthink and not-reading-the-damn-piece behaviour that Elon's Twitter provokes.This is a very good thread and you should read it. The past 24 hours has seen all the worst kind of piling-on, groupthink and not-reading-the-damn-piece behaviour that Elon's Twitter provokes.
That is probably the best way to rationalize it. But I still doubt it passes cost-benefit test for most...
A piece I wrote on the 'protest vote bias': Three ways that an inclination to protest vote (to vote for a 3rd party with no chance or to not vote at all) could be due to cognitive errors www.pressherald.com?p=7367476&uu...
When you enter the voting booth on Election Day, boycotting the viable candidates isnāt going to help. Whether you like it or not, one of them is going to win.