Welcome to Vancouver, we’ve been waiting for you! I’m convinced it was my invitation that convinced Taylor Swift to come to BC.
Not the sold-out venues worldwide, not that her biggest & best fans are in our province, not that she already planned to… Nope, can’t be any of those!
Our world is marked by geopolitical turbulence, unpredictability and uncertainty. The tectonic plates of the world order are shifting beneath our feet. And, the structures that are built upon them are fracturing. Bad actors seek to re-shape the very rules that have kept us safe.
I struggled with posting this.Not right now,I thought,as we bear witness to one of the biggest acts of violence of our lifetime.Then I thought of younger,more vulnerable journalists across Canadian newsrooms.Betrayed,silenced, getting worse than this & alone.This is for them. -1
The closing of ranks by Indian media, the foreign policy/natsec establishment, and even academics has been something to behold. It's actually been pretty scary to watch in real time.
Important aspects to note about our cash transfer study:
1. Participant sample. Our screening criteria were: age 19-65, homeless for less than 2 years (homelessness defined as a lack of stable housing), Canadian citizen or permanent resident, and non-severe levels of substance use, alcohol use, and mental health symptoms. So the findings only applied to these participants. We don’t know how the cash transfer would influence those who were screened out.
2. Attrition. Around 31% of the participants dropped out of the study over one year (see the CONSORT diagram in the supplemental information). While we don’t have the data for those who dropped out, we did conduct a multiple imputation analysis to account for the missing data (see sensitivity analyses in the SI).
3. Pre-registration. Our pre-registered hypotheses were highly constrained, focusing only on short-term subjective well-being and cognitive function outcomes from previous cash transfer studies in very different contexts. Since few cash transfer study has been done with the homeless population, we didn’t have sufficient evidence to inform our pre-registered hypotheses, which is why these results were null. But null pre-registered results don’t necessarily invalidate exploratory results. We have learned a ton from this study. We are currently running a pre-registered replication study with a larger sample to see if the exploratory results replicate. Stay tuned.
Pakistani e-commerce guru Sunny Ali spun dreams — thousands of dollars from Amazon sales, a billion dollar economy. Now, his empire has crumbled, and scores want their money back.
@NilChristopher and I report on how a hustlepreneur went terribly wrong
https://t.co/NpSgTbJWY1