Delighted to present my work with @UrbanHealthProf on social mobility, income inequality and mortality in Canada and the US at #EPH2023 @EUPHActs Great to see a lot of interest, especially from Nordic colleagues!
Erik Igelström
@igelstorm
PhD student @SPHSU_ineq Glasgow (social epi & causal inference). Sometimes makes music and/or theatre.
@igelstorm@ohai.social @igelstorm.bsky.social
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Learning or teaching #causalinference?
✨ Here are some highlights from our new causal inference glossary ✨
This would've been a lifesaver when I first started wading through the dense and impostor-syndrome-inducing causal inference lit
doi.org/10.1136/jech-2… #epitwitter
✨ Here are some highlights from our new causal inference glossary ✨
This would've been a lifesaver when I first started wading through the dense and impostor-syndrome-inducing causal inference lit
doi.org/10.1136/jech-2… #epitwitter
Web devs - I'm honestly not that fussed if your form has to be ASCII-only for whatever reason, but please don't say stuff like this about my actual last name 😒
Very insightful! "People can only bring themselves to believe things for which they can find rationalizations. [...] This constraint generates rationalization markets, social structures in which agents compete to produce rationalizations in exchange for money and social rewards."
New open access paper: "The Marketplace of Rationalizations". The basic idea: Motivated reasoning is subject to a rationalization constraint: people can only convince themselves of beliefs for which they can find appropriate rationalizations. (1/16)View quoted post on X
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This intervention from @CommonsSpeaker #Hoyle is one of the most unpleasant things I've seen in #PMQs in a while. Vivid example of how the vaguely defined and arbitrarily enforced standards of behaviour in the UK political system prevent fair and equal representation ⚖