Yonah Drazen

Researcher @IRP_UW, aspiring cartographer, percussion w/ Forward Marching Band. PhD from @UWMadSocialWork. He. Studying antipoverty policy and child wellbeing.

[Yonah Drazen @yonahdrazen]

Authorities have yet to comment on the identity or identities of the Social Sciences building time-shaming Post-It note bandit. Photos taken at approximately 3:10pm today.

[Yonah Drazen @yonahdrazen]

Question for the quant people out there. If you were going to work on a new programming language outside of the stats platforms, which would you choose? I'm looking at Python or SQL. They do very different things of course (I think?)

[Yonah Drazen @yonahdrazen]

Once AI is added to it we'll rename it... Cognitive BIOS

[Yonah Drazen @yonahdrazen]

A low-level operating system component that automatically checks your work for logical fallacies.

I'll call it... Confirmation BIOS.

[Yonah Drazen @yonahdrazen]

see below, especially with regard to great colleagues.

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[Yonah Drazen @yonahdrazen]

TONIGHT: Join Forward! Marching Band as we play for Make Music Madison. I can guarantee both the weather and the music will be HOT.

8pm, Willy Street Park: 1002 Williamson St

[Yonah Drazen @yonahdrazen]

I've been looking forward to this since Kelly's talk at @IRP_UW last year. Can't wait to read it!

[Kelley Fong @kelley_fong]

My book, #InvestigatingFamilies, will be out in October!

I can't wait to share what I learned from moms, #ChildProtectiveServices investigators, and mandated reporters with you all.

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[Kathryn Anne Edwards @keds_economist]

Howdy all, suggestion for my journalist friends: please don’t call them work requirements. It’s an inaccurate misnomer.

Instead, call them what they are: paperwork requirements.

[Yonah Drazen @yonahdrazen]

@jschwabish Grayscale test: there's contrast such that you can see counties are different categories, but it's all but impossible to tie the counties back to the legend.

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[Yonah Drazen @yonahdrazen]

@TheJewishDream I can confirm this has been a stated goal of Rafi's for at least 20 years.

[Yonah Drazen @yonahdrazen]

@TheJewishDream Agreed. A bit of an odd one, seeing as how they announced just 2 months out.

[Yonah Drazen @yonahdrazen]

@TheJewishDream It is a five-day tour on the west coast.

[Yonah Drazen @yonahdrazen]

@TheJewishDream This is exactly what I said should happen when the Bauhaus tour tanked last year

[Yonah Drazen @yonahdrazen]

Working with a new administrative data set, so it's time to play that fun game:
Does... missing... really... mean... zero!

[Yonah Drazen @yonahdrazen]

This is how you discuss a question about changing poverty rates: with a clear question and reasoning for the choice of measure. SPM is really effective at helping understand how well income support programs boost families.

[Zach Parolin @ZParolin]

2/3: Another way to look at these trends: how strongly were taxes/transfers reducing child poverty rates in the given year? The record-low child poverty rates in 2020 and 2021 are attributable to the temporarily-strengthened welfare state.

[Yonah Drazen @yonahdrazen]

The same way, people benefit from different weather-related measures to answer questions about how to prepare for and respond to the day ahead. Both poverty and weather are fantastically complicated phenomena that don’t boil down easily to just a few numbers.

[Yonah Drazen @yonahdrazen]

This response thread was... unhelpful. Deeply so. Where to begin? Let's start with the basics: measurement validity.

[Yonah Drazen @yonahdrazen]

The response also relies on the mistaken notion that there is one “correct” poverty measure. There isn’t. Different mechanisms for measuring poverty exist to answer the range of policy questions being asked.