ZD 24.20: Cancellation Costs
What price cancel culture?
In this issue: Thinking in Distributions, the Business of the Olympics, and the price of our ongoing cancellation wars. This week’s issue is a bit lighter as it seems the world is taking a breather after processing a decade’s worth of news in a month.
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The Distilled Spirit
📊 Thinking in Distributions ()
The world is awash in statistics, and it is often comforting to think of those numbers as hard and absolute. The world, however, does not work that way. Thinking in distributions makes a lot more sense.
👩❤️👩 Could Tinder Save Western Civilization? (Every Napkin Math)
Populations are shrinking, but a young labor force is critical to funding the modern welfare state. You need the young working to support the old and infirm. People are not meeting and mating like they used to. A dating app with a lot of people using it is the solution to this problem.
🗽 The Business of the Olympics (Stat Significant)
Daniel Parris is writing amazing analysis at Stat Significant. This week he breaks down the business of watching the olympics worldwide. Fewer people are watching yet sponsors are paying more 🤷♂️.
＄ No, Cypto is Not an Election Issue (Citation Needed)
Some crypto bros want you to believe that a large proportion of the electorate is voting with their blockchain. Molly White tells you why the numbers do not support this idea. Even if a few folks holding a lot of crypto want the world to think otherwise.
The Idea
⛔️ The Costs of Cancellation ()
The ongoing culture wars involve tit-for-tat reflexive attempts at revenge for non-crimes and unpopular opinions. This does little to nothing to foster successful discourse, social compromise or progress. The net result is to costing us in technical competence and to make us all poorer though loss of free discourse. Maybe we would be better off with a little less cancel and a bit more understanding.
The Look
Social mobility for poor white Americans has cratered in the last fed decades.
explains the cratering economic prospects of white men raised poor.