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Watching Elon try to openly recreate several decades of trust and safety work by tens of thousands of people from first principles is likely to give me a stroke. https://twitter.com/b_fung/status/1524093307567149058 More Musk: So glad to see that my package is getting good use! Collected data that needs weighting but not sure where to start? Check out my new blog post with a step-by-step walkthrough on how to create survey weights using ACS data and the {anesrake} package! DMs are open for comments, questions or feedback! If @elonmusk wanted to really do something for the public square, he could have come to #AAPOR and helped work on translating actual people’s opinions into something news & governments could respond to. At least he might be able to poke some holes in his own sampling approach. @teslaownersSV @Twitter Ignore first 1000 followers, then pick every 10th. I’m open to better ideas. THIS 👇👇👇👇 24) Finally, what's underpinning opinion? 3 things: Views toward when life begins, control over decisions, and....what else you won't see in these standard polls....views toward women and power:
"If there are tweets that are wrong and bad, those should be either deleted or made invisible, and a suspension, a temporary suspension is appropriate but not a permanent ban.”
https://zacharylhertz.github.io/posts/2022/05/weighting-surveys
Attitudes towards abortion are closely tied to views about women and power. https://twitter.com/teemoneyusa/status/1522579876305412098
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