Best of Twitter - July 11-24, 2022

Niko McCarty @NikoMcCarty

*After New Science’s report on the NIH. statnews.com/2022/07/21/aft…. Also, cool.

statnews.comAfter STAT report, GOP lawmakers seek answers about defunct NIH oversight committeeAn NIH oversight committee mysteriously stopped meeting seven years ago. Republican lawmakers want to know why.

Niko McCarty @NikoMcCarty

Link to the @newscienceorg report from April 22, about two weeks before @statnews coverage.

newscience.orgNew Science’s Report on the NIH - New ScienceIntroduction In 2006, the National Institutes of Health Reform Act passed Congress. 1 This droll, political document established a Scientific Management Review Board within the NIH. That board — comprised of Dr. Anthony Fauci, a former Lockheed Martin CEO and high-ranking NIH officials — was tasked…

^ New Science is starting to make an impact on the national science policy conversation.

Jon M Jachimowicz @jonj

🚨 New WP 🚨 In late 2020 we gave 5,000 low-income US participants $2000, $500, or nothing ($2.5m in transfers), measured survey outcomes, & (for 43%) have access to bank info. What did we find? 1/ (w/ @AniaJaroszewicz, @julianjamison, & Oliver Hauser) 🔓papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Jon M Jachimowicz @jonj

Turning to SURVEY outcomes (financial and psychological well-being, cognitive capacity, health), here comes the big (& based on prediction study, surprising) takeaway: We find NO positive effect of cash—if anything, in some prespecified analyses, we even see negative effects. 6/

^ ????????

易富贤YI Fuxian @fuxianyi

Recently leaked China's population data confirm my estimates: births began to decline in 1991, with no peak in 2004 or 2011; Population is now less than 1.28 billion, not the official 1.41 billion; Population began to shrink in 2018, not 2031 as officially predicted.

Rob Henderson @robkhenderson

"influencers often find that their more extreme and sensational behavior receives the most attention and approval, which leads them to recalibrate...they exaggerate idiosyncratic facets of their personalities, becoming crude caricatures of themselves."

gurwinder.substack.comThe Perils of Audience CaptureHow influencers become brainwashed by their audiences

^ This is not only about influencers.

Nabeel (in London 🇬🇧) @nabeelqu

My contribution to the 'productivity advice' genre:

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vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin

Is there any economic research on how morale affects economic growth? It feels like everyone agrees that in military contexts, morale is absolutely critical. So surely it should have a significant impact in regular life too. But I haven't seen anyone trying to talk about this.

Charles Piller @cpiller

Were two separate, major lines of Alzheimer’s research tainted by image fabrication, with far-reaching implications for the field? I take a deep look for @ScienceMagazine science.org/content/articl… 🧵 1/11

science.orgPotential fabrication in research images threatens key theory of Alzheimer’s diseaseA neuroscience sleuth challenges data showing one toxic form of amyloid protein is a cause of brain condition

Jason Abaluck @Jabaluck

There is a selection bias generated from the fact that researchers choose to study a topic that causes us to overstate the strength of the evidence in nearly all historical studies and many others.

^ thread.

Jeffrey Ladish @JeffLadish

Love this little chart here from Open Phil