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R Gordon Rinderknecht

@R_Gordon_R

Associate behavioral scientist at RAND Corp, previously at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Find me at https://teapawt.net/t.co/GdfvIzT7kT

 Washington, DC
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Joined May 2015
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A forthcoming chapter on Digital and Computational Demography co-led by @ridhikash07 and me with several collaborators at MPIDR and Oxford is available now on @socarxivpapers: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/7b…
Aliakbar Akbaritabar, @akbaritabar.bsky.social (@Akbaritabar) profile pictureAliakbar Akbaritabar, @akbaritabar.bsky.social@Akbaritabar21 Apr 2022
Digital and Computational Demography By @ridhikash07 @R_Gordon_R @d_alburez @sof14g1l @grow_andre @kr_jisu Douglas Ryan Leasure @s_lohmann_ @DanielaVN6 @PerrottaDaniela @chiccorampazzo @chiajungtsa1 @MarkDVerhagen @ezagheni @XinyiZhao16 and myself See: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/7b…
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@mmitchell_ai23 Apr 2023
I replicated this (my screenshot below). Really great example of gender bias, for those of you who need a canonical example to make the point.
ChatGPT screenshot: MA: In the sentence "The professor told the graduate student she wasn't working hard enough", who wasn't working hard enough? ChatGPT: In the sentence "The professor told the graduate student she wasn't working hard enough", the pronoun "she" refers to the graduate student. Therefore, the graduate student is the one who the professor believed wasn't working hard enough. MA: In the sentence "The professor told the graduate student he wasn't working hard enough", who wasn't working hard enough? ChatGPT: In the sentence "The professor told the graduate student he wasn't working hard enough", the pronoun "he" refers to the professor. Therefore, the sentence implies that the professor was not working hard enough, according to his own assessment or the perception of the graduate student.

ALT ChatGPT screenshot: MA: In the sentence "The professor told the graduate student she wasn't working hard enough", who wasn't working hard enough? ChatGPT: In the sentence "The professor told the graduate student she wasn't working hard enough", the pronoun "she" refers to the graduate student. Therefore, the graduate student is the one who the professor believed wasn't working hard enough. MA: In the sentence "The professor told the graduate student he wasn't working hard enough", who wasn't working hard enough? ChatGPT: In the sentence "The professor told the graduate student he wasn't working hard enough", the pronoun "he" refers to the professor. Therefore, the sentence implies that the professor was not working hard enough, according to his own assessment or the perception of the graduate student.

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@jburnmurdoch31 Mar 2023
NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/re… And some utterly damning charts. 1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.
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@rex_woodbury9 Mar 2023
Teens who meet up with their friends 'almost every day' is down from 50% in the 90s to 25% today. Falls off a cliff around 2010, alongside the rise of smartphones and social media.
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Demographic Fact A Day@demfactaday19 Feb 2023
The US marriage rate has fallen 65% in the last 50 years. The number of people marrying in 2021 was a million less than the peak in 1984.
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Philip N Cohen (@familyunequal) profile picturePhilip N Cohen@familyunequal19 Feb 2023
Toot from ift.tt/LRNQ3Gv #NowYouKnow: People marrying, count and rate per 1000 unmarried adults (age 15+): USA, 1900-2021. The marriage rate has fallen 65% in the last 50 years. The number of people marrying in 2021 was a million less than the peak in 1984. #demogra…
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Demographic Fact A Day@demfactaday20 Nov 2022
The average American now spends just less than half their years between age 15 and 75 married -- down from 70% for men and 64% for women in 1960.
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IMPRS-PHDS@IMPRS_PHDS15 Nov 2022
Happy and honored to have 80+ online and 15 in-person students attend this week's hybrid course on Digital and Computational Demography presented by our researchers @ezagheni, @TheileTom, @kr_jisu, @Akbaritabar and @R_Gordon_R High resolution image 👉 imprs-phds.mpg.de/images/DCD…
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IMPRS-PHDS@IMPRS_PHDS6 Oct 2022
Apply now for our open course on Digital and Computational Demography, 14-18 November 2022, presented by @MPIDRnews scientists @ezagheni, @TheileTom, @kr_jisu, @Akbaritabar and @R_Gordon_R! Details: demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122… Deadline for applications is 31 October 2022.
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MPIDR@MPIDRnews6 Sep 2022
Are you either 🧮a methodologist 🫂 a social and behavioral scientist or 🖥️a computational social scientist interested in advancing demography? Apply for a job in the lab of our Director @ezagheni! ➡️demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122…
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I've been covering bad parts of the internet for long time now. For years, there was one site extremist researchers warned me not to cover because publicizing it would be dangerous. But it's time people know KiwiFarms—and how they're chasing political enemies around the world.
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I have a new paper w/ @longdoan and @LCHSayer describing the diary I spent almost half of my time in grad school programing: jtur.iatur.org/home/article/…
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My time-use project with @longdoan @LCHSayer @s_lohmann_ @ezagheni and @kjdrot is now live at #SMSociety. Feel free to stop by! youtu.be/sshCVt9yzxw
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Hope Xu Yan@HopeYanxu15 Jun 2022
Our new paper finds full-time working mothers reported smaller stress increases following the COVID-19 outbreak than women with most other mothering and employment statuses.
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NEW #openaccess article - "Mothering and Stress during COVID-19: Exploring the Moderating Effects of Employment" is out now! 1/2 journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful… #openscience #soctwitter #opensociology
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journal-doi.org/10.731/pcbi.… "Editor’s Note: ... We are publishing their paper here because they won’t stop mailing hard copies in triplicate to our homes and offices."😆
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Emilio Zagheni@ezagheni1 Mar 2022
We are hiring! Want to improve people’s well-being through computing, statistics and demography? You are not alone. Consider joining us @MPIDRnews as Postdoc/Research Scientist in the Lab of Digital and Computational Demography (deadline: April 15): bit.ly/3C32aXp
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Looking forward to presenting in person again! w/ @longdoan @LCHSayer
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I’ll be giving a talk on collecting time diaries during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as demonstrating the diary I developed w/ @longdoan and @LCHSayer on Tuesday, November 16th, 11:00 – 12:00 CET If interested, feel free to message me for the Zoom link
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How Men and Women Spend Their Days #DataVisualization illustrates how people in #America spent their #time on an avg. weekday or weekend in 2020. #Data via @BLS_gov (@IPUMS) by @flowingdata flowingdata.com/2021/09/21/h…

How Men and Women Spend Their Days (2020)

Using an oldie but goodie visualization format to look at time use between different groups.

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MPIDR@MPIDRnews15 Sep 2021
"Both who we interact with, and how, combine to shape the experience of loneliness", says @R_Gordon_R about the main finding of his recent paper published in Social Problems @OUPAcademic academic.oup.com/socpro/adva…
Loneliness Loves Company, Some More than Others: Social Ties, Form of Engagement, and Their...

Loneliness Loves Company, Some More than Others: Social Ties, Form of Engagement, and Their...

Abstract. Although tie strength is a significant theoretical concept in the field, recent work suggests that other dimensions of social ties may be importa

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In our latest paper we found that LGB young adults living with their parents before/during COVID and who moved back home with their parents during COVID (greatest burden) experienced increases in mental distress and decreases in wellbeing: doi.apa.org/fulltext/2021-81… @DrJessicaNFish
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