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Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

https://nautil.us/ordinary-lab-gloves-may-have-skewed-microplastic-data-1279386

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Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

https://nautil.us/ordinary-lab-gloves-may-have-skewed-microplastic-data-1279386

#HackerNews #Ordinary #Lab #Gloves #May #Have #Skewed #Microplastic #Data #microplastics #labresearch #environmentalimpact #science #news

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

https://nautil.us/ordinary-lab-gloves-may-have-skewed-microplastic-data-1279386

#HackerNews #Ordinary #Lab #Gloves #May #Have #Skewed #Microplastic #Data #microplastics #labresearch #environmentalimpact #science #news

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

https://nautil.us/ordinary-lab-gloves-may-have-skewed-microplastic-data-1279386

#HackerNews #Ordinary #Lab #Gloves #May #Have #Skewed #Microplastic #Data #microplastics #labresearch #environmentalimpact #science #news

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

https://nautil.us/ordinary-lab-gloves-may-have-skewed-microplastic-data-1279386

#HackerNews #Ordinary #Lab #Gloves #May #Have #Skewed #Microplastic #Data #microplastics #labresearch #environmentalimpact #science #news

It took me a while
to understand
you really believe
you speak the truth

That your view
gets skewed
by your desires

But your ego
protects you
from seeing

It took me a while
to understand
you really have
no integrity

#vsspoem - #skewed
#WritingCommunity #poetry

@poetry

The GOP Is Trying to Steal Democracy in Ohio. That Has National Implications.

#Ohio is already one of the most #gerrymandered states in the country. Its maps are so unfair that its own state Supreme Court voted multiple times to send the maps back to the drawing board, only to have its rulings repeatedly undermined, the clock run out, and the #illegally #skewed #maps still used in the midterms.

Now, a new threat looms in the Buckeye State. Facing the prospect of a #citizen #initiative to #restore statewide #abortion #rights this November, the GOP-dominated Ohio legislature is moving in advance to block it.

They have proposed a measure to increase the vote requirement for a constitutional amendment from a simple majority to 60 percent, along with making it far harder to qualify a citizen initiative.

In short, the Ohio GOP wants to write in a supermajority requirement, just as the will of the majority, which favors reproductive choice and the protections of Roe v. Wade, is about to make itself heard.

Wait, can they even do that? Just blatantly #move #the #goalposts, right as progressives are getting ready to score?

Unfortunately, there is no legal barrier preventing this. Instead, the people of Ohio need to make it clear that they will not put up with this #power #grab.

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-gop-is-trying-to-steal-democracy?utm_medium=reader2

#Kurtosis was an important #parameter differentiating #size distributions, with #platykurtic distributions in #marls and #leptokurtic distributions in #limestones, suggesting that this parameter may reflect different degrees of #time #averaging. Most size #distributions were positively #skewed, but most strongly in marls. Complete #sampling led to #skewness values close to zero (#symmetrical distributions) and high kurtosis.

https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2021.063

#newpaperalert, coauthored w/ Andrew Shaver & many excellent coauthors.

News reports of political #violence are compiled into large global #conflict-event datasets used by academics, governments, and international organizations. We study how these #data may be systematically #skewed. Our #replication exercise shows that media-based data fail to uncover the results reported in leading #economics/#polisci articles.

Full abstract in attached screenshot.

Link to paper: https://esoc.princeton.edu/WP32