The content economy on X
After Elon Musk acquired Twitter/X, he started monetizing it. There are two types of monetization schemes: 1) subscribers, which work the same way as every other platform (monthly sub, some…
Few people trust journalists
I was going to do a bunch of searchers to find polls of trust in different occupations by country. However, it turned out to be unnecessary because Ipsos has already…
Which countries make the best movies?
In a simple sense, the answer is America. But America has over 300 million people, and other countries have fewer than 10 million people. Which country makes the best movies…
Against “phobia”
There's two uses of this common word: Fear or anxiety of something. Dislike of some group, usually left-wing aligned. The first is the original as it is just the Greek…
Did the New York Times inform readers about Rotherham?
I saw this amusing exchange on Twitter some days ago: I don't think Matthew had investigated this claim, it was maybe revealed to him in a dream. But was it…
Wikipedia’s political bias demonstrated by sentiment analysis
The great David Rozado has a new study out on the politics of Wikipedia: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased?. He downloaded the English Wikipedia database, and analyzed whether the articles covering…
Should you watch that recent movie?
Many people are currently wondering whether to bother going to the cinema to see the new Dune movie. It currently has a rating of 9.0 on IMDB with 90k votes.…
Social media, mental health, and political polarization
Richard Hanania has a nice post: How I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression. He looked into the trends of mental health problems and whether this could…
How bad is the Hungarian democracy? A quantitative approach
Hungarian president Viktor Orbán is not popular with western media and academics. This is obvious as he is a national conservative, and that's the least favorite group according to journalist…
Should you get off Twitbookgram?
You might be familiar with stuff like this: How heavy use of social media is linked to mental illness, The Economist, 2018 Looking over the chart a bit, we find…