Ah, pardon my ignorance, all the communities have the same name, and I forget about instances, they must have been removed from lemmy.world, still don’t understand why tho
Also outside of perhaps the EU, are there any legal enforcement mechanisms to hold them accountable for lying about it, if an audit showed that they were?
It becomes inherently difficult to make datasets actually anonymous the more data points they have about a given individual - it doesn’t much matter whether names and such are listed data points if they can be inferred from the rest. This investigation by Svea Eckert and Andreas Dewes, for instance, managed to identify a named German member of parliament (Valerie Wilms) and other public functionaries within a data set on web browsing habits they received from data brokers.
Most countries do have data privacy legislation and relevant regulatory/enforcement agencies, but the data brokerage business is big and intensely international so the picture on audits is kind of unavoidably complicated.
A “healthy” rhesus monkey cloned in China has survived for more than two years and is providing “valuable insights” into the scientific process, according to researchers....
Hy everyone, I have a PiHole instance running on my home server, and I changed my router (Fritz box) DNS in order to use my PiHole. Everything runs great....
A number of problems in DNS operations today are attributable to poor choices of secondary servers for DNS zones
That RFC is about DNS servers in the context of DNS zones in domain names. Not for a DNS client running DNS queries like an operating system. And the RFC is very clear about this:
The distinction between primary and secondary servers is relevant only to the servers for the zone concerned, to the rest of the DNS there are simply multiple servers.
For your Windows, Linux whatever machine “there are simply multiple DNS servers”.
Which defines/influences how resolvers behave with multiple DNS servers.
It doesn’t. As I said in another comment “most operating systems will just load balance or opportunistically pick between the two”, and there’s the relevant part from the RFC:
All are treated equally at first instance, even by the parent server that delegates the zone. Resolvers often measure the performance of the various servers, choose the “best”, for some definition of best, and prefer that one for most queries.
Buying a family-sized home with three or more bedrooms used to be manageable for young people with children. But with home prices climbing faster than wages, mortgage rates still close to 23-year highs and a shortage of homes nationwide, many Millennials with kids can’t afford it. And Gen Z adults with kids? Even harder....
I would say that if something, anything - a title, the article itself, etc. - informs, then it is useful, while if it MISLEADS then it becomes… the opposite. Right? In computer science, as I am guessing you are aware, that term even has the special name of a “worst-case scenario”, being by far and above more damning than an average- or best-case one, and which has extremely important security and other considerations.
The title describes 2 active agents - boomers vs. young families - and sets them up in an adversarial capacity, even placing them at opposing ends of the sentence, connected together with “homes” and “problem”. Btw, tbh I am aware that I may be thinking about this title more than the author themselves did, but even if so that does not negate the “strategy” involved - e.g. a spider puts out its web without any thought whatsoever, yet it still works, i.e., whether through the blind natural processes of thoughts evolving such that those that survive tend to be propagated while those that fail tend to be left behind. Anyway, ARE baby boomers and young families adversaries in this “fight”, or is this yet another instance of the tactic of “controlling the conversation” - a tactic nowhere near pioneered by the Alt-Right, yet used to great effect by them lately nonetheless?
Which begs the question: if this media source, owned by extraordinarily wealthy people who live lives so disconnected and above the rest of us that the vast majority of us will literally never meet one during the course of our entire lives, is trying to pit boomers vs. young families against one another, what could they possibly hope to gain? Especially at the cost of journalistic integrity, that they used to uphold?! (or at least make the appearance of that anyway) Could it be that the owner(s) of CNN, or their friends, has & continues to make a TON of money by buying up real estate? i.e., I am saying that there are not merely 2 active agents here: there is a 3rd! (but one that this title is going to some trouble to hide away, by distracting us in pointing us towards the two other sides) This 3rd one, (purposefully?) not mentioned at all by this title, is the one causing all of those “problems”! Therefore in effect, it is really the prime agent even, hence arguably the one that was most worth mentioning in the first place? As in this alternative titling: “the wealthy tying up the housing market harms empty-nest baby boomers & young families alike, in different ways”. You can imagine this in graph form as the prime agent with arrows pointing to each of the other 2, while the OG title ignores the prime agent entirely and substitutes the two arrows with a subtle & singular arrow from the baby boomers towards the young families - b/c SOMEBODY has to be causing these “problems”, right? And if it is not the fault of the young families… why then, who else even exists that could be to blame, hrm…?!? Hence the active verbage there “Boomers WON’T PART”, as I mentioned earlier like they are having some kind of dementia-addled temper tantrum akin to that of a toddler, who just needs the real adults (the “young families”… b/c that is the only other agent that exists, right?) to step up and do the right thing, perhaps convincing or even just simply to take it from them. When in reality the REAL, prime agent, who has an “in” with the media source, gets off scott-free of blame.
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.
Fortunately, AI is a powerful tool, and while I think it will ultimately do a great deal of harm to our society (meh, the same as everything else though - like nukes, gunpowder, probably even fire itself originally:-D), it can also be used for great good as well, depending on how the user chooses to wield it. Thus I wish you luck in that endeavor! I will say that its victory may be short-lived though, as the success of titles such as these will only serve to embolden those who would push for their existence in the first place, and thus surely the content of the articles themselves at CNN will start to be affected next. i.e. AI can certainly be trained to replace the titles (possibly sometimes to hilarious effects, but likely quite useful often enough?), but until it is ready to replace the entire content of the article as well, filling in gaps by doing first-hand research even, it will never solve the problem of preventing us from being harmed by misinformation. Not that that makes it not worth doing - it could be fun, and even a help purely in the short-term is still a help, so yeah, I wish you luck!:-D
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !harrypotter
Thanks for the info, makes sense, went and read up some more on Mbin now, and strangely most of their instances are named under Kbin…
Tried to do a search on Lemmy and Kbin on a post from Beehaw, and it couldn’t find anything. So will have to check if Beehaw has blocked them or something.
It seems that Friendica (using it via the @phanpy 3rd part Mastodon app, that it can reach and comment on Beehaw just fine. Read somewhere on one of the replies on the post that Friendica / RSS might just be the best bet in interacting with most / everything in the fediverse.
I don’t fully understand how lemmy works completely yet. But for example I made an account at Division by zero and subscribe here to post. Is it not just a more inconvenient version of making a reddit account and being able to post practically anywhere?...
You can still subscribe to the community on the boogered instance from your new instance. And if it’s bad, people are going to start to subscribe to another community on the same topic on another instance with you. And it can have the same name, you don’t even have to call it r/the_true_real_feet pics like you do when a community splinters on reddit
For the third time in less than a year, film studios with copyright infringement complaints against a cable Internet provider are trying to force Reddit to share information about users who have discussed piracy on the site.
In the first instance, US Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler ruled in the US District Court for the Northern District of California that the First Amendment right to anonymous speech meant Reddit didn’t have to disclose the names, email addresses, and other account registration information for nine Reddit users.
Film companies, including Bodyguard Productions and Millennium Media, had subpoenaed Reddit in relation to a copyright infringement lawsuit against Astound Broadband-owned RCN about subscribers allegedly pirating 34 movie titles, including Hellboy (2019), Rambo V: Last Blood, and Tesla.
In her ruling, Beeler noted that while the First Amendment right to anonymous speech is not absolute, the film producers had already received the names of 118 Grande subscribers.
She also said the film producers had failed to prove that “the identifying information is directly or materially relevant or unavailable from another source.”
This week, as reported by TorrentFreak, film companies Voltage Holdings, which are part of the previous two subpoenas, and Screen Media Ventures, another film studio with litigation against RCN, filed a motion to compel [PDF] Reddit to respond to the subpoena in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
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“IT WAS AS if a storm had targeted us.” On the afternoon of December 15, an Israeli airstrike slammed into the Farhana school in Khan Younis where Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh and his cameraman, Samer Abu Daqqa, had just wrapped up filming the aftermath of an earlier bombardment in the area....
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We have been buying extra strong PG Tips British tea from Amazon because we think American tea is way too weak. 3 boxes of 80 were about $40 last time I bought them a few months ago. They’re now $80. Thankfully we discovered we can get an order of 6 for $60, but we have to wait until mid-February for the to arrive. Meanwhile,...
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I definitely recognize some of the mods, and some of the key players in the communities that I follow. There’s good people here, and I believe it’s going to keep getting better.
I wasn’t paying attention to usernames as much when I first started. For whatever reason, I’ve started to pay attention to the names, as well as the instances. I like seeing where people are commenting from, and it even gives some insight into places or things I might be interested in as well.
Sometimes I’ll check out a person’s profile to see what things they’re commenting on. This feels kind of creepy a little bit. I don’t think anyone really cares though, so long as you’re not being abusive or something.
Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say::Reddit says First Amendment rights protect it from having to disclose users’ info.
For the third time in less than a year, film studios with copyright infringement complaints against a cable Internet provider are trying to force Reddit to share information about users who have discussed piracy on the site.
In the first instance, US Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler ruled in the US District Court for the Northern District of California that the First Amendment right to anonymous speech meant Reddit didn’t have to disclose the names, email addresses, and other account registration information for nine Reddit users.
Film companies, including Bodyguard Productions and Millennium Media, had subpoenaed Reddit in relation to a copyright infringement lawsuit against Astound Broadband-owned RCN about subscribers allegedly pirating 34 movie titles, including Hellboy (2019), Rambo V: Last Blood, and Tesla.
In her ruling, Beeler noted that while the First Amendment right to anonymous speech is not absolute, the film producers had already received the names of 118 Grande subscribers.
She also said the film producers had failed to prove that “the identifying information is directly or materially relevant or unavailable from another source.”
This week, as reported by TorrentFreak, film companies Voltage Holdings, which are part of the previous two subpoenas, and Screen Media Ventures, another film studio with litigation against RCN, filed a motion to compel [PDF] Reddit to respond to the subpoena in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
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Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !bimboliplovers
<p>The <em><a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064971" target="_blank" rel="noopener">International Journal of Environmental Research</a></em> recently published a study revealing a nuanced understanding of caffeine’s effects on our brain and attention, particularly during periods of sleep deprivation. Researchers discovered that while a single dose of caffeine can improve attention in sleep-deprived individuals, regular high consumption of caffeine leads to diminished attentional performance, as well as alterations in brain activity.</p>
<p>Caffeine, the most widely consumed psychoactive substance in the world, is known for its ability to ward off sleepiness and improve focus — especially after a night of insufficient sleep. But how does this stimulant affect people who drink coffee, tea, or energy drinks regularly? In particular, how does it impact these demographics when they are deprived of sleep?</p>
<p>To answer this, researchers at the Army Biomedical Research Institute in France and Paris Cité University delved into the realm of habitual caffeine consumption and its impact on cognitive function, particularly in conditions of total sleep deprivation (TSD).</p>
<p>The motivation behind the study was to extend general understanding beyond the immediate, short-term effects of caffeine. “Our goal was to evaluate the influence of habitual caffeine consumption on [psychomotor] performance during total sleep deprivation,” the researchers wrote in the study.</p>
<p>Together, the team explored how a regular caffeine intake affects our ability to stay focused and alert during prolonged periods without sleep — a situation common in many professional fields, namely those in the realm of healthcare and the military.</p>
<p>Thirty-seven healthy individuals were studied for their range of daily caffeine consumption habits, from low to high. The participants were between the ages of 18 to 55 and did not have prior sleeping conditions. The researchers employed a double-blind, crossover design in which participants underwent total sleep deprivation with either a placebo or caffeine treatment.</p>
<p>The participants’ attentional performance was measured using a Psychomotor Vigilance Task (PVT), a standard test in sleep research, where subjects respond to visual stimuli as quickly as possible. Additionally, the researchers recorded the participants’ brain activity using EEG, focusing on the individual alpha frequency— a key indicator of alert cognitive processing.</p>
<p>During total sleep deprivation, all participants — regardless of their caffeine habits — showed improved attention with an acute dose of caffeine. However, those with higher regular caffeine intakes (more than 300 mg per day, roughly the amount in three cups of coffee) exhibited slower reaction times compared to those who consumed less on a daily basis. This suggests that while caffeine can offer a temporary boost, over time, high consumption might actually hinder our cognitive sharpness during sleep deprivation. Additionally, EEG results showed that habitual high caffeine consumers had a lower individual alpha frequency — indicating altered brain activity associated with attention and cognitive processing.</p>
<p>The study’s results paint a complex picture of caffeine’s impact on our cognitive faculties during sleep deprivation. One of the most significant findings was the relationship between habitual caffeine consumption and reaction time (RT) during the psychomotor vigilance task (PVT). RT is a critical measure of attentional performance, where shorter times indicate better attentional focus.</p>
<p>Intriguingly, the study found that while acute caffeine intake (a single dose) improved RT for all participants during total sleep deprivation, those who regularly consumed high amounts of caffeine (over 300 mg per day) had longer RTs compared to their lower-consuming counterparts. In other words, while caffeine is effective at enhancing alertness in the short term, over time, high habitual intake could dull its beneficial effects — and cause slow responses when they are most needed.</p><div class="addrop-wrap" data-id="64749"><p style="text-align: center;">
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<p>Another pivotal aspect of the study was the examination of brain activity through EEG recordings, focusing on the individual alpha frequency (IAF). The IAF is a key brain wave associated with cognitive processes, and alterations in this frequency can indicate changes in cognitive states. Remarkably, the study revealed that high habitual caffeine consumers exhibited a lower IAF during tasks, a sign of decreased cognitive processing efficiency. This finding further confirms the observed longer reaction times in high caffeine consumers — corroborating the idea that excessive regular caffeine intake may impair cognitive function during sleep deprivation.</p>
<p>While these findings are revealing, they come with caveats. The study’s relatively short duration means it didn’t fully capture potential caffeine withdrawal effects in habitual high consumers. Additionally, the division of participants into low, moderate, and high caffeine consumption groups, while necessary for analysis, might oversimplify the complex spectrum of caffeine habits. Also, the study primarily focused on reaction times and specific EEG measurements, not encompassing all aspects of cognitive function affected by both caffeine and sleep deprivation.</p>
<p>This study offers a more comprehensive picture of caffeine’s role in our daily lives, especially for those who rely on it to combat sleep-related fatigue. It suggests that while caffeine can be a useful tool for enhancing alertness in the short term, excessive regular intake may reduce its effectiveness and potentially impair cognitive function during periods of sleep deprivation. These findings have significant implications, particularly for professions that often involve sleep deprivation, prompting a reevaluation of caffeine consumption habits and their long-term effects on our brains and attention.</p>
<p>The study, “<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/6/4971" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Relationship between Habitual Caffeine Consumption, Attentional Performance, and Individual Alpha Frequency during Total Sleep Deprivation</a>“, was authored by by Michael Quiquempoix, Catherine Drogou, Mégane Erblang, Pascal Van Beers, Mathias Guillard, Pierre-Emmanuel Tardo-Dino, Arnaud Rabat, Damien Léger, Mounir Chennaoui, Danielle Gomez-Merino, and Fabien Sauvet.</p>
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I’ve been curious about NixOS for quite some time. Reading about it I couldn’t see how the config sharing capabilities, setup, or rollabck would be better than Arch and sharing the list of installed packages, using downgrade or chroot....
That is nicely written but we have mostly already implemented that. There’s some critical things like
A new Contributor who makes a correct patch SHALL be invited to become a Maintainer.
which we will not implement as commit access to Nixpkgs is security-critical. Anyone with commit access can push malware to thousands of users. We’re doing good here not handing that out to anyone who contributes a patch.
Most of the nitpicks could be resolved by a linter and auto-formatter.
It’s also quite annoying when a review is just a bunch of character modifications, renames, replacement of entire sections with no comment whatsoever. Or when knowledge is implied.
As a reviewer, you cannot know the reviewee’s experience level. Simply ask and/or Google if you don’t know something. We don’t explain every little thing in detail that we comment on every 5 PRs. Nobody has time for that.
Why isn’t mkDerivation {} or ./. OK
I don’t know the context of the latter but the former is absolutely okay. It’s just a matter of taste really and reviewers are free to express theirs.
Having it on nix.dev as a suggestion, is not the way to do it.
Why? That’s official docs.
What’s even worse is when you get one review like the above, change it, then get another review that again changes something according to undocumented convention, you change it, and another reviewer comes along with yet another such review. I don’t contribute to nixpkgs anymore, in part, for that reason.
That happens sometimes. I’m guilty of that too to a degree. If all you receive are such nitpicks, it’s a good sign that the other aspects of your PR are good to go.
Also note that this isn’t uniform among committers. Most don’t care about nits very much unless you’re doing something clearly out of the ordinary.
Two of the most notorious committers who did this have gotten their wrists slapped recently btw.
why not the rest? What about stdenv? What about fetchers? build-support?
I don’t know how you imagine that to work? There is no generic way to document bespoke code (LLMs don’t count).
How easy or hard is it to get a repo in the nix-community org?
I don’t have much experience with that but the one time I did that I simply walked up to one of the nix-community admins at NixCon and asked them to. I imagine it works roughly the same without being in-person.
Who is allowed to make large changes to nixpkgs e.g review process, CI/CD, package naming, etc?
Anyone.
Small obvious improvements with little to no downsides or room for opinion can just be done and everyone will thank you.
Edit: Looked it up and there was an official wiki at some point it was scrapped because it’s better to have the documentation in the Nixpkgs tree together with the code. In a sense, it still exists in the form of the official manual.
When RFCs can simply be closed as “won’t resolve” or whatever the euphemism is for “no, not on my watch” without community consensus, then I’m not sure what else to call it.
Not sure which one you’re referring to.
There have also been packages requested by a few people, a PR from a newcomer attached and it just never crossing the finish line. A reviewer left a comment, the PR creator made a change and asked if it was fine now, only to hear crickets.
Most of the issues you see can be traced back to limited reviewer capacity.
If the OG nix community won’t change (or won’t do it quickly enough), then that’s the beauty of opensource: the project can be forked.
Forking a project is a click of a button but that still won’t solve anything. All problems mentioned here are problems of the community around the project which we sadly haven’t found a way to clone yet. You’d have a project that is dead in the water because maintaining Nixpkgs is an insane amount of work that requires at least a community as large as the one around Nixpkgs.
tar-like movement of the OG nix community (or the maintainers? dunno)
Note that you’re talking about an entirely different set of people here than the rest of the post.
A member finally had enough and just started another one (nixlang.wiki), which IMO already looks and feels much better than unofficial yet officially linked to nixos.wiki
The main difference is that it runs different (IMHO better) wiki software; wikijs instead of a weird mediawiki fork.
It’s great that they set it up separately but I’d fully expect it to become the regular nixos.wiki at some point with most of the content copied over. I don’t think anyone wants to keep maintaining the old one’s technical aspects now that this exists.
That wiki seems to have come from the official wiki being killed, but then a need for a wiki arising and a nix community member taking it upon themselves to create it
No, it’s because nobody is really maintaining the technical aspect of the current unofficial wiki. The reason they went ahed and set up a new wiki is that it’s easier to start from scratch on a new domain than migrating the old wiki in-place; both from a technical and organisational PoV.
as the (for lack of better term) nix top dogs for whatever reason didn’t recreate it.
There is no such thing. I don’t even know who set the wiki up. It’s probably just some person who did it out of passion, just like nixlang.wiki now.
You seem to be assuming some sort of authority structure where there really is none. For better or for worse, there is no person or group of people who call the shots. That’s not how we work.
Most of the NixOS infra for instance was held together mostly by one person in their free time because nobody else stepped up. They’re in the process of transferring that role to a couple others who did eventually step up as we speak.
It’s similar with a lot of things in the Nix community. The wiki is a good example. The person who set up the new one didn’t want to bother figuring out who in the world maintains the old one and how they could get the new one in place, so they created an entirely new one instead.
there seems to be a resistance to change or at least an inability to take advantage of the good will and energy of the community.
There will always be resistance to change. Not all change is good afterall. In moderation, conservatism is a good thing (actual conservatism that is, not the BS kind in current politics).
I think what you’re feeling is mostly correct but it’s mostly due to lack of time and energy, not because we don’t want to change.
The rate of change also isn’t uniform. Compared to the infra or Nix itself, Nixpkgs changes quite a lot IMHO.
I assume you’re phrasing this as a question to challenge what I said regarding main stream search engines.
It is possible to get a random hit on Lemmy, as instances are crawled like any other webpage. Just like you might get a Mastadon hit every once in a while. However they will not rank very high and almost always be buried a few pages in, while a Reddit post will rank much higher for the same search.
It’s the natured of how federation works and search engines don’t account for it. You can increase your chances by including a specific instance name or the word Lemmy.
<p>Scientists have identified a strong link between increasing poverty, income inequality, and the rise in homicide rates across the United States. The study, encompassing data from 1990 to 2020, reveals that states with the highest levels of poverty and income disparity experienced the most significant spikes in homicide rates, especially notable during the turbulent year of 2020. The findings have been published in <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2023.31"><em><span class="text" data-v-63dfaf6e="">Evolutionary Human Sciences</span></em></a>.</p>
<p>Previous research in the realm of sociology and economics has long attempted to untangle the complex web of factors contributing to homicide rates. Numerous studies have pointed towards various causes, ranging from socio-economic conditions to environmental factors. However, what remained elusive was a comprehensive analysis that could systematically account for the interplay between economic conditions like poverty and inequality, and their impact on violent crime, particularly homicide. This gap in understanding motivated the current study, aiming to explore the relationship between these socio-economic factors and homicide rates using a more nuanced approach.</p>
<p>“As homicides rates spiked during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, news outlets were nominating a host of potential causes to explain the increase, including factors such as ambient air temperature and city greenness,” explained study author <a href="https://faculty.utah.edu/u0407008-WESTON_CRAIG_MCCOOL/hm/index.hml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Weston McCool</a>, a postdoctoral fellow in the Society, Water, and Climate Research Group, and the Anthropology Department at the University of Utah.</p>
<p>“We were convinced, and still are, that the causes of the 2020 spike were related to the same underlying factors that have been structuring US homicide rates for decades, namely, poverty and inequality. We were also worried that without a theory of behavior, scholars would struggle to distinguish causal factors from spurious correlations or correlated effects. We wrote this paper to build on existing theory and to evaluate whether poverty and inequality can account for variation in homicide rates across US states over the last 30 years, including the 2020 spike.”</p>
<p>The researchers compiled and analyzed data for each U.S. state over a thirty-year period, from 1990 through 2020. They used homicide data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program and socio-economic information (specifically regarding poverty and income inequality) from the American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. Notably, the Gini Index, a measure of income distribution within a state, was employed to assess income inequality. The study involved a comprehensive analysis of these datasets, looking for patterns and correlations over time and across different states.</p>
<p>From 2019 to 2020, an alarming increase in homicide rates was observed in 46 states. This period also saw a rise in the proportion of households living below the poverty line and an increase in income inequality in most of these states. Through sophisticated statistical modeling, the study demonstrated that poverty and inequality independently and jointly contributed to higher homicide rates. States with the highest levels of poverty and income inequality were found to have the highest homicide rates. This pattern remained consistent over the three decades of data analyzed.</p>
<p>“Typically, inequality is seen as the prime driver of homicide rates in the United States,” McCool told PsyPost. “Poverty is usually seen as a relatively less important causal factor, with some scholars dismissing its effects entirely. In our statistical model, we show that while inequality <em>and</em> poverty have strong independent effects on homicide rates, we were surprised to find that murders peak when and where inequality and poverty <em>interact</em>. That is, homicide rates peak when and where poverty and inequality have combined effects, which is a novel finding that we did not entirely anticipate.”</p>
<p>“Readers should come away with two related points: 1) As predicted by theory from the evolutionary social sciences, the combination of poverty and inequality predict homicide rates in the United States over the last 30 years (the range in which homicide data are available), including the 2020 COVID-19 spike. 2) Homicide rates disproportionately impact non-white communities due to a long history of systemic racism towards racial and ethnic minority groups that restrict individual’s access to resources and opportunities,” McCool explained. “We suggest these results provide compelling evidence to expand strategies for reducing homicide rates by dismantling structures of systemic racism that generate and concentrate sustained poverty and economic inequality.”</p>
<p>However, the study’s findings come with some caveats. For instance, the model used could not account for all the variations in homicide rates, leaving about 50% of the variation unexplained. This suggests that other factors, possibly cultural or institutional, also play a role in influencing homicide rates. Additionally, the study’s reliance on state-level data, as opposed to more localized data, might have affected the precision of the findings. The researchers acknowledge this and suggest that future studies could benefit from analyzing more fine-grained local data to better understand the dynamics at play.</p>
<p>“Currently, the only data available for this kind of US-wide multi-decadal analysis are at the level of US states, rather than, say, counties or zip-codes,” McCool said. “We expect that homicide rates are most strongly affected by local poverty and inequality, not so much what’s happening in a different city or on the other side of the state. As such, our analysis is necessarily somewhat coarse.”</p><div class="addrop-wrap" data-id="64749"><p style="text-align: center;">
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<p>“We hope that in the future higher resolution data will become available to track homicide rates in relation to very localized economic conditions. We should also note that the predictive power of our model was not uniform across US states, and underpredicted homicide rates in some instances. Nonetheless, the model did not underperform in any states for the 2020 COVID-19 data.”</p>
<p>Despite these limitations, the study offers crucial insights into the societal and policy implications of its findings. It underscores the need for interventions targeting both poverty reduction and the narrowing of income disparities to effectively tackle the root causes of increased homicide rates. Moreover, the study sheds light on the disproportionate impact of these socio-economic factors on minority communities, suggesting that addressing systemic racism and its contribution to economic disparities could be vital in reducing homicide rates.</p>
<p>“We contend that studies of homicide and, more broadly, human violence, should take heed of theoretical developments that provide explicit predictions of what conditions should promote violent behaviors, including homicide,” McCool told PsyPost. “By explicitly testing theory-based predictions we can work to avoid confusing causes with effects and move beyond the proverbial exercise of throwing spaghetti on the wall to see what sticks.”</p>
<p>The study, “<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/evolutionary-human-sciences/article/us-homicide-rates-increase-when-resources-are-scarce-and-unequally-distributed/2EE2181FE8610AFDA8B8BAADB62BB0EB" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. homicide rates increase when resources are scarce and unequally distributed</a>“, was authored by Weston C. McCool and Brian F. Codding.</p>
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Israeli army blows up Israa University in south Gaza (en.royanews.tv)
Have companies that claim to anonymize the data gathered on individuals ever been independently audited to verify that?
Also outside of perhaps the EU, are there any legal enforcement mechanisms to hold them accountable for lying about it, if an audit showed that they were?
Does anyone know of a Spanish speaking instance besides feddit.cl? Eslemmy.es has been down for some time now
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Scientists in China report cloned rhesus monkey has survived for two years (www.independent.co.uk)
A “healthy” rhesus monkey cloned in China has survived for more than two years and is providing “valuable insights” into the scientific process, according to researchers....
Noob question about PiHole
Hy everyone, I have a PiHole instance running on my home server, and I changed my router (Fritz box) DNS in order to use my PiHole. Everything runs great....
Boomers won’t part with their homes, and that’s a problem for young families (www.cnn.com)
Buying a family-sized home with three or more bedrooms used to be manageable for young people with children. But with home prices climbing faster than wages, mortgage rates still close to 23-year highs and a shortage of homes nationwide, many Millennials with kids can’t afford it. And Gen Z adults with kids? Even harder....
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Prove it wrong: the fediverse is not as connected as we're told, and it's splintering even more now.
This is what makes the Fediverse so frustrating, been using: #Kbin #FireFish #Mastodon #Friendica #IceShrimp #Lemmy....
What are the practical benefits of the fediverse?
I don’t fully understand how lemmy works completely yet. But for example I made an account at Division by zero and subscribe here to post. Is it not just a more inconvenient version of making a reddit account and being able to post practically anywhere?...
Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say (arstechnica.com)
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Israel Bombed an Al Jazeera Cameraman — and Blocked Evacuation Efforts as He Bled to Death (theintercept.com)
“IT WAS AS if a storm had targeted us.” On the afternoon of December 15, an Israeli airstrike slammed into the Farhana school in Khan Younis where Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh and his cameraman, Samer Abu Daqqa, had just wrapped up filming the aftermath of an earlier bombardment in the area....
Amazon pricing makes no sense.
We have been buying extra strong PG Tips British tea from Amazon because we think American tea is way too weak. 3 boxes of 80 were about $40 last time I bought them a few months ago. They’re now $80. Thankfully we discovered we can get an order of 6 for $60, but we have to wait until mid-February for the to arrive. Meanwhile,...
Anyone else notice the fediverse is quite close knit?
I keep seeing the same names popping up. I think it’s rather cute!
Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say (arstechnica.com)
Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say::Reddit says First Amendment rights protect it from having to disclose users’ info.
recycling beauty trends (lemmy.world)
NixOS is better because...
I’ve been curious about NixOS for quite some time. Reading about it I couldn’t see how the config sharing capabilities, setup, or rollabck would be better than Arch and sharing the list of installed packages, using downgrade or chroot....
Can Lemmy instances make content of their sub-Lemmys indexable by search engines?
I don’t have my own instance or server, so I don’t know, but it would be interesting to know.
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