I couldn’t really let last week’s #SocialMediaSummitNSWSAwww.crikey.com.au/20...

Inside the moral panic at Australia's 'first of its kind' summit about kids on social media

'The science is settled,' the SA premier touted. Meanwhile, experts raised concerns offstage in private breakout discussions.

When we discuss and debate the Albanese government's plan to ban teens from social media, what we're really talking about is a national social media age verification scheme. www.crikey.com.au/20...

Keep thinking about this. Why don't we have a similar "total experiment error" framework as a default setting for inference from social science experiments? Oftentimes we pretend all we need to account for is sampling error even though we know our measurements, treatments, etc. are full of error.

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So in my field, we have this idea of “total survey error” where we enumerate all the many factors that can cause your estimate to deviate from the true population value. Most of them can’t be measured or quantified except in rare situations. But we tend to approach estimates with this in mind.

Are you a news avoider? 🚫📰📺📻🚫You're not alone. A new study shows that most Kiwis avoid the news at least some of the time. Was a pleasure to work on this research with Alex Beattie and Richard Arnold. theconversation.com/news-blues-s...

News blues: study reveals why 60% of Kiwis avoid the news at least some of the time

New Zealand’s news avoidance rates are higher than in any other surveyed country. Mood, political orientation and perceptions of sensationalism or bias all play a role.

The #CrankyUnclesdoi.org/10.1080/2164...#edu#health#publicHealth#decisionScience#medicine#bioethics#software#UI#tech

"Why can we see Aurora in NZ, we aren't Iceland & why do our Aurora look different to Aurora Borealis". Simply we are relatively closer to Geomagnetic South Pole & more often than not we are looking side on at it from NZ. I made this years ago as a basic guide

"Random Forest" changed to "irregular backwoods" to avoid plagiarism detectors, I'm dying

1. What’s the source? 2. What is the agenda of the person posting about this? 3. When was it posted? 4. Has AI been involved somehow? www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10...

Four ways to tell that the hurricane video you just watched was a fake

Incredible pictures of the devastation of Hurricane Milton in the US are already being shared online. But amongst the real footage is a flood of fakes. Here's how to spot them.

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Misinformation is a threat to society – let’s not pretend otherwise

The concept of misinformation has recently been subject to a range of theoretical and methodological critiques. Sander van der Linden, Ullrich Ecker and Stephan Lewandowsky argue misinformation has…

"The experiment was robust and well designed. But during the short time it was conducted, Meta changed its news feed algorithm to boost more reliable news content. In doing so, it changed the control condition of the experiment." theconversation.com/is-big-tech-...

Is big tech harming society? To find out, we need research – but it’s being manipulated by big tech itself

Big tech doesn’t just fund research into itself – it also controls researchers’ access to data. Even big tobacco didn’t have this kind of power.