C Barrington-Leigh

Only just realized that USA, Japan, and Sweden account for 36% of the respondents in the GFS! Be careful to weight your data the way you should....

First frost coming this week? Recent history of first frost dates in Montreal (wow! 😮):

And here's @Stanford's apology and reversal, too many days later to be helpful for me. And given that they had prepared instructions for the transition, and call this a mistake only based on the response, I'd guess it was their intentional choice. Bizarre.

Bookmark this series: Coming this autumn: six more hours of reality, as beautiful as film gets: It'll be a chance to turn off your AI slop (which honestly already won't really be slop by then)... youtube.com/watch?v=LvjlkoWk…

Way to piss off your alumni, @Stanford @StanfordAlumni ! Did any other Stanford alumni get a zero-notice bricking of their entire Google Drive today? With no prior notice, I got this. There's some grace time for email, but not my files: nothing in my Drive can be edited anymore!!

youtube.com/watch?v=Cq8qO-Nj… Economists are changing their tune, since I wrote this:

Congratulations for bringing a twins study to the pollution -life satisfaction question! But what tragedy that in 2026 they cite statistical significance as their result. If they reported the confidence intervals instead of p values, the abstract and conclusions would change. 😭

Rapid decline in child and youth wellbeing in Canada: what do we know? wellbeing.research.mcgill.ca…

Now this is a real shame: Is it right that @WelshGovernment has put the ONS 4 (or its own subjective wellbeing questions) on a national survey, but made the beginner mistake of not putting them at the very beginning? @SeneddWales @WGHealthandCare @BBCWales @BBCWalesNews

Wow, I don't remember past spacewalks being broadcast with this level of sharing youtube.com/watch?v=D0dd8X4g… Jessica and Chris, it sounds like you're normal people doing a job any of us can identify with (like Artemis). Thanks for the unfiltered audio feed! Keep up the amazing work!