Darrin L Rogers @DarrinLRogers@fediscience.org

Ah, roundtables: a group of amazing academics making speech-like sounds with hints of brilliant insights, none of which I will understand unless they also happen to have Broadway-star vocal projection. Sigh.

#conferences #hearingdisability

"Dear M[a]c[K/k]en[z/s]i[e],"

-- Me, emailing 20% of my students

I keep hoping to hear conservative family & friends (to say nothing of politicians and media figures) actually condemn the ideology that drove the murderers. I'd even settle, at this point, for a condemnation of the murders themselves. I hear none of that.

What are the least lethal places to live in the US as far as gun violence and automobile deaths? Maybe don't take this graph as your final answer, but this take on #CDC mortality data suggests Boston is surprisingly OK. Maybe steer clear of the deep #south, especially the bayou region.

Note: heart disease, diabetes, and COVID are not shown.

Besides the fact that police don't die very often in the USA, #police deaths have also gradually gone down since the 1980s. Recent statements by police-supporting journalists and organizations suggest an alarming increase in deaths in the past two years. Yes. Because of #COVID.

Apparently #music sucks after about 1930 (but we're getting better)

#dataviz #datascience #spotify #yourmusicsucks

Years ago I read an insightful paper in which societal/legal treatment of sex offenders was compared to being declared "homo sacer" in ancient #rome.

IIRC homo sacer ~=~ "property of (only) the gods," so you could be abused by others, even strangers, bc if the gods wanted to save you, they would. You're their property.

Just now saw ref to a video essay: "the audience is a god."

#woah

Student project day! Best part of the job.

Oh god why am I #graphing instead of doing my actual work?

Anyway, here's the graph.

My contribution to a twitter convo about which major cities in the US are safest. The data comes from the CDC Wonder service: Compressed Mortality.

Each point is a CBSA (a census-based statistical area; i.e., a metro area). The circle sizes are proportionate to population. I added colors for Woodward's "11 American nations."

Absolutely do not base your life decisions on this graph. I accept no responsibility

#StarWars with live orchestra :)
(And potato quality photo)

"To help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same."

#sunshine
#data #graphs
#psychometrics #ResearchMethods
#tidyverse #Rstats
#HigherEd #transparency
#datascience
#GetMeABetterJob

I'll stop here with the history (which I'm a bit shaky on). Freund's development of the volumetric penile plethysmograph played a major part in modern scientific study of sexual offending and pedophilia (note: they are not the same thing), and I believe played a nontrivial role in the shift of most Western democratic nations away from criminalizing homosexuality.

The end.

/fin

The Canadian government, in the 1970s (I think) began funding ground-breaking research on sex offending by way of clinician-researchers working in and with the Canadian prison system.

(Meanwhile, another prong of the budding sexual abuse research field was underway, mostly in the US and Europe, driven by feminists focusing on victim experiences).

The best work on offenders was being done in Ontario. Freund eventually crossed the pond to join in.

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