Andrei Boutyline

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan

[Andrei Boutyline @_Andrei_B_]

Thanks a lot for the links, everyone! Do send us more if you've got them.

[Andrei Boutyline @_Andrei_B_]

SOCIOLOGISTS: we are writing an annual review article about word embeddings in sociology. If you have a published article or draft manuscript you've written using word embeddings (including LLMs like BERT/GPT3/...), please drop me a line with a URL so we can include it.

[Andrei Boutyline @_Andrei_B_]

(* w/ @arsenievK and @ethanjohnst)

[Alice Evans @_alice_evans]

Female schooling has soared,

But men are still more likely to be called ‘intelligent’.

‘Genius’ is still reserved for men.

New analysis of a 200 million word corpus of US print media (1930-2009) by @_Andrei_B_ @arsenievK & Cornell

[Andrei Boutyline @_Andrei_B_]

@GenderParityUK @_alice_evans @arsenievK Roughly speaking, if a term has a y coordinate of +1, that means it is one standard deviation more likely to be used in the contexts of feminine terms than in the context of masculine terms at that point in time.

[Andrei Boutyline @_Andrei_B_]

@Glen99630953 @_alice_evans @arsenievK Yes, but the chart is actually 1/2 of this finding, the other 1/2 being that the gender associations of intelligence and unintelligence move in unison. In other words, women used to be more associated with the *judgement* of intelligence (high or low), whereas now it is men.

[Andrei Boutyline @_Andrei_B_]

@Amtrak, does the AC in roomettes/bedrooms on SW Chief recirculate air from rest of train? And if so, are there HEPA filters (or other devices) to prevent coronavirus spread?

[Andrei Boutyline @_Andrei_B_]

Trying to decide on a paper title: (1) "What Exactly are Cultural Schemas: A Conceptual Reorientation & User's Guide" vs (2) "Cultural Schemas: What They Are, How to Find Them, and What to Do Once You've Caught One" [or (2b): "... Once You Have One"]. Thoughts?

[Andrei Boutyline @_Andrei_B_]

This review is literally the stuff of nightmares. The argument is roughly: 'the scientific community is the only rightful evaluator of quality of published work; thus, evaluations of the quality of published work by members of this community should not be published'

[Brian Nosek (@[email protected]) @BrianNosek]

@LauraMKoenig Here's a thin slice of one reviewer's comments (not editor comments) to provide a flavor from behind the curtain. I don't think the whole review (and others) are identifying, but I'm reluctant to post more. As you might expect, reviews were polarized.

[Andrei Boutyline @_Andrei_B_]

Quiz: sociology paper or math paper?
https://t.co/dhtZyEEnBv (I got 15/17)

[Andrei Boutyline @_Andrei_B_]

3.6 million instances of (very, very small-scale) pro-social behavior. #theinternet https://t.co/AWEWUrXAy0

[Carter Wilkerson @carterjwm]

HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS

[Katherine Ognyanova (@ognyanova.bsky.social) @Ognyanova]

Belief Network Analysis: A Relational Approach to Understanding the Structure of Attitudes https://t.co/y1EaDcE1WA #sna #PoliSci

[Andrei Boutyline @_Andrei_B_]

Huh, R takes ~0.02 sec to run an endline..? Compare "a <- Sys.time(); b <- Sys.time(); a-b" to same script w endlines instead of semicolons.

[Andrei Boutyline @_Andrei_B_]

(and I am willing to go very, very lax with the definition of "useful" here)

[Andrei Boutyline @_Andrei_B_]

A physical UI of sliders/knobs to control any software: https://t.co/0X6WER09jI Any way to make these useful with statistical software?

[Andrei Boutyline @_Andrei_B_]

538 now gives Hillary 70.8%, her best odds since Sep 5. Guess that 1 debate was enough to undo whole month of Trump pretending to be Romney.

[Andrei Boutyline @_Andrei_B_]

Appealing take on new Penn Sta: https://t.co/HclMgZwHNa… May be better than orig, which was as oppressively monumental as Farley post is now

[Andrei Boutyline @_Andrei_B_]

Srsly, sugar-lobby oppo to oakland soda tax may be highest per-voter funded campaign I've seen. Inundated by ads. Lobby clearly scared.

[Andrei Boutyline @_Andrei_B_]

Seeing online ads and getting mailed glossy fliers& branded grocery bag frm sugar-lobby oppo to #OakSodaTax. Well-funded & wildly misleading

[Andrei Boutyline @_Andrei_B_]

@omarwagih Absolutely love guessthecor! But points are always so nicely distributed. For teaching, wld be great to introduce outliers etc.