It’s been about a year of this Substack! I have about 800 subscribers; while this is small in comparison to many other Substacks, I think it’s solid for a Substack that almost exclusively posts long essays with 20+ citations.
Scientists are more likely to detect coding errors if the error produces weird results. Makes sense; I definitely worry about this with my own work, because I am much more likely to check for errors if the answer is clearly wrong!1
- has a great piece on measuring GDP in the past in .
The US population could shrink - for the first time ever - in 2025.
Jed Kolko says that the US has probably not lost 2.2 million immigrants in eight months, though.
A new paper argues that Labour’s anti-immigration stance has changed people’s view of them but not reduced support for Reform. (ht
)46% of immigrants during the (US) era of mass migration worked in an ethnic occupational niche.2
37% of US dog owners think vaccines could cause autism… in their dog.
In physics, we call this building intuition. For instance, if you have gotten a negative length, this is a strong indication that you’ve done something wrong.
That is, an occupation where there are many people of that ethnicity that work in it. For instance, ~40% of hotels in the US are owned by Gujarati-Americans.