book, article, or podcast review

Discussion about Disagreement on the Rationally Speaking Podcast

June 3, 2022
5,226 words (~26 minutes) Tags: opinion book, article, or podcast review first-person

Two interviews from Rationally Speaking about disagreement are reviewed: John Nerst’s discussion of low resolution abstraction, and Buster Benson’s learnings from arguments with friends and family.

Kwame Anthony Appiah's Criticism of “Cultural Appropriation” Criticism

January 26, 2022
2,490 words (~12 minutes) Tags: opinion book, article, or podcast review philosophy third-person

Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah argues that “cultural appropriation” is based on a mistaken mental model of what “culture” denotes and that there are other, better criticisms.

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Top Four Needs for Future Contraceptive Technology

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Use of Contraception in the United States Reported in the 2017-2019 National Survey of Family Growth

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The Fallacy of Generic Thinking

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Category-Based Prejudice

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Anecdotes Are Not Evidence

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Political Rhetoric as Shibboleths

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Margaret Sanger on Abortion in Her Own Words

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My name is Joshua Born. I am a professional survey statistician and amateur social scientist.

This blog is an outlet for me to explore my own interests in my personal time, including research interests. Most of my research interests pertain to what I have termed "reproductive responsibility," which focuses on the study of contraception and occasionally touches on related topics.

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