Our team went through the data file and removed the most obviously false responses — the impossible or extremely improbable ages, the ethnic/racial mismatches, the people who gave AI-generated free-response answers. When it was all said and done, we removed 574 of the 1,174 current Orthodox (48.9%) and 422 of the 695 former Orthodox (70.8%). Combined, we removed 53.3% of the respondents we were sent — and remember, that’s after a bunch of bad respondents were already removed in the data cleaning process prior to our receipt of the data.

Unfortunately, a great number of bogus respondents can sneak into opt-in online surveys, polluting the results. Among Orthodox Christians in a recent opt-in survey, about half seemed to be bogus respondents.
orthodoxstudies.substack.com/p/what-the-quiet-revival...

Does @dril.bsky.social run this store?

That’s one way to train bots to beat detection methods in surveys

Democrats case on corruption would be strengthened by dumping those incumbents with credible charges of corruption against them. This is a good start

Even if you mean magnate that is still confusing

“Sticker magnet”?

The Zaphod Beeblebrox Paradox

I put together this "experiment checklist" for the grad students in my experiments class -- practical advice for experimental design. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lwbco...

XReal makes a product like this (and there were smartphones before iphone), but the magic of Apple has always been the cross-device integration

A Wish List for the Man Replacing Tim Cook as Apple’s C.E.O.

This is an interesting article. I do think there are other form factors for computing devices to be developed. Specifically I'd love to see a glasses-type interface that is lightweight (not Vision Pro) and doesn't have forward facing cameras (not creep glasses).

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/t...

wtf is wrong with these people. as a dad I always smile and wave at babies.

Why is this a comparison to other presidents' first terms instead of their second?

Democrats aim for midterm upsets in districts that Trump safely won Strategists in both parties say the president’s unpopularity is dragging down incumbents not used to running hard campaigns, and some have been hit by scandals.

Democrats aim for midterm upsets in districts that Trump safely won, new from @iarnsdorf.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

People are saying bsky.app/profile/kwco...

Some people view others making different choices than they did as an attack on their choices.

Wisconsin leads the country in binge drinking. So that’s one plausible theory

Also Limburger cheese, but that’s sort of know for being … not the best

Wisconsin fish boils are … not good. Stick to the fish fry

The state samples are all pretty small, so the confidence intervals here are pretty big, about 6 pp give or take on the levels (and therefore more on the margin)

Toplines are here netchoice.org/wp-content/u...

If you walk into a bar and drunkenly try to pick a fight with everyone in the room, and succeed, then don’t complain about the bar being full of belligerent drunks

If you think everyone on this website is out to get you, maybe the problem is the way *you* are behaving on it

Dashboard Congressional, with their hit album “A Markup, A Mission, A Party Brand, A CBO Score”

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We had a similar split in NJ last year: polls showed one thing, vibes another.
The polls were right. The high quality ones generally are.

When does boarding start ?

Yes I said figures, plural

It sure would be helpful if major political figures based in California seeking higher office would exercise some leadership here

Gotta love an omnibus ..