John Roman
John Romano was an American physician, psychiatrist, and educator whose major interest was in medical education and the important relationship… more
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>rides off into the dirty sunset>
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Them: What time can you meet on Wednesday?
Me: Anytime but 10 to 11
Them: Great, I'll send an invite for 10.
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OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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When people say crime is a big problem, are they really talking about crime?
Sometimes, but not always For those who study crime, it is a head-scratching moment. Opinion polls show that people are deeply worried about public safety in America and are atypically open to radical approaches to fighting crime, including militarized policing. At the same time, crime continues to decline at unprecedented rates and is already at historically low levels. It’s ha…
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On the YIMBY-Abundance Crime Blind Spot
Nudging the pro-city crowd toward more effective crime policy A few housekeeping notes before we dive in. We’ve hit a milestone of sorts here at External Processing, enrolling our 1,000th subscriber. Despite the modest nature of this accomplishment, this has caused some soul-searching about the nature of a meaningful life and the External Processing blog’s role in it, or at least in mine. Specifically, I continue …
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It touches nearly every aspect of life in the city, making it harder for local officials to manage even the things Trump cares most about.
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Let’s get tough on crime by solving more crimes
Choosing between certainty and punishment It is hard to think of an idea with more staying power, and one with less empirical support, than the idea that the way to be tough on crime is to lock lots of people up. The idea is simple and intuitive: we should lock up the bad guys for as long as we can to keep our streets safe. The trick is that we are pretty bad at identifying the bad guys, so we …
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On Making Cost-Benefit Useful
How to Help Policymakers Care About your Results In this essay, I will propose a relatively novel way of thinking about analyzing program success as an input to policymaking. My take is that the answers provided by conventional program evaluation and policy analysis are inadequate in developing research findings that policymakers can act on. In the best-case scenario, research develops answers that ar…