Parenting culture in the United States
2022-12-21
The average college educated mother in the United States spends ~2 hours a day with her children. Amazingly, this is a 100% increase from 1965.
From the Economist via Sarah Constantin
2022-12-21
The average college educated mother in the United States spends ~2 hours a day with her children. Amazingly, this is a 100% increase from 1965.
From the Economist via Sarah Constantin
2022-12-20
Only one of Einstein’s papers was ever peer-reviewed, by the way, and he was so surprised and upset that he published his paper in a different journal instead.)
Via Adam Mastroianni, who makes a compelling case against peer review.
It does seem that writing publicly and emphasizing auditability (sharing of data and code) would be more important than anything else.
2022-12-14
India is going surpass China as the most populous country in the world next year, according to Pew Research. China’s population is expected to decline by 46% by 2100 according to the UN’s middle of the road projection.
The population cliff ahead of China is astounding. And a fact that has been true all my life (China is the most populous country in the world) isn’t true any longer.
2022-12-13
In the United States, 39% of adults say they believe “we are living in the end times,” while 58% say they do not believe we are living in the end times, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.
Christians are divided on this question, with 47% saying we are living in the end times, including majorities in the historically Black (76%) and evangelical (63%) Protestant traditions.
From Pew Research. I wonder what the trend line is like here.
2022-12-12
In the past five years, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), “people have reported losing a staggering $1.3 billion to romance scams, more than any other FTC fraud category.” In 2021 alone, that number was $547 million, which was a nearly 80 percent increase compared to the previous year.
That is from RF Jurjevics at Vice writing about romance scams targeting women and the men who’s social media photos are used by the scammers. Found via The Browser.