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Zeynep Tufekci
zeynep.substack.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2020
Zeynep Tufekci, a sociologist, writes essays on the pandemic, science communication, technology and public reasoning.
What HN saysCommenters call her pandemic and critical thinking essays amazing, and link her summaries of a contact tracing study on indoor spread.
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- 1What we can learn from the latest indoor dining study5 people · 173 points · first shared 2020 · 106 comments on HN
- 2The Pandemic Heroes Who Gave Us the Gift of Time and Gift of Information4 people · 8 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 3The Clubhouse App and the Rise of Oral Psychodynamics4 people · 6 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 4Critical Thinking Isn't Just a Process3 people · 121 points · first shared 2021 · 29 comments on HN
- 5The problem with the tech hearings2 people · 76 points · first shared 2020 · 143 comments on HN
- 6On Randomized Trials and Medicine2 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 7The Gaslighting of Science1 people · 128 points · first shared 2021 · 146 comments on HN
- 8Why You Should Take Any Vaccine1 people · 46 points · first shared 2021 · 80 comments on HN
- 9The Hunter Biden Story Everyone Is Missing1 people · 4 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 10Long Covid: How Bungle Reporting on a Thorny Topic1 people · 3 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 11Moralizing Everything1 people · 1 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 12Balancing Epistemic Humility and Prior Knowledge1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 13Vaccine efficacy, statistical power, and mental models1 people · 1 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 14Vaccines and Decision-Making with Imperfect Data1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 15Is choice always worth the anxiety?1 people · 1 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
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barathr · 2021-04-11
Her earlier two related posts on metaepistemology were amazing as well:
https://zeynep.substack.com/p/lessons-from-a-pandemic-anniversary
https://zeynep.substack.com/p/critical-thinking-isnt-just-a-process
ChaitanyaSai · 2021-02-22
That's a fair point. The big problem I see with "lots of exciting live events at any time", and I agree this is not everyone's perspective, is how I am again confronted with a curation dilemma. Need someone to vet the content (reviews, ratings etc) to help me choose, and it's still a pain. With live content, review of content before consumption is no longer possible. I guess new forms of creator review could come up. I really liked this perspective that takes a broader historical look at oral culture https://zeynep.substack.com/p/the-clubhouse-app-and-the-rise-of [ still not convinced live can scale, but maybe less o :) ]
js2 · 2020-12-19
Or maybe just five minutes:
> If you just want the results: one person (Case B) infected two other people (case A and C) from a distance away of 6.5 meters (~21 feet) and 4.8m (~15 feet). Case B and case A overlapped for just five minutes at quite a distance away. These people were well beyond the current 6 feet / 2 meter guidelines of CDC and much further than the current 3 feet / one meter distance advocated by the WHO. And they still transmitted the virus.
https://zeynep.substack.com/p/small-data-big-implications
adamjb · 2020-12-11
Nice concise write up of the same study here: https://zeynep.substack.com/p/small-data-big-implications
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25305573
graeme · 2020-12-06
Restaurants are majorly associated with spread. They’re unmasked, indoor environments where people talk.
Here’s an interesting report where two people were infected with just five min of overlap by an unmasked person. Extremely detailed contact tracing by the south koreans.
TV, by contrast, gets other people to stay at home in front of the TV and not be bored. A super vital service right now!
https://zeynep.substack.com/p/small-data-big-implications
mellosouls · 2020-12-04
The tweeter has written up their observations here:
https://zeynep.substack.com/p/small-data-big-implications