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Daily Archives: October 6, 2016

Business Insider – 22 fascinating maps that show how Americans speak English differently across the US

Everyone knows Americans don’t agree on pronunciations. That’s great, because regional accents and dialects are a major part of why American English is so interesting. Josh Katz, a former Ph.D. student of statistics at North Carolina State University, published a group of awesome visualizations of Professor Bert Vaux and Scott Golder’s linguistic survey, which looked at differences in American dialects (via detsl on /r/Linguistics). His results were first published on The Abstract, the NC State University research blog. Katz gave Business Insider permission to publish some of the coolest maps from his collection. The complete set of Katz’s maps, updated with the results from more than 350,000 new survey responses, are compiled in the new book “Speaking American,” publishing October 25 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.”

NIST study – Security Fatigue

Security Fatigue, Issue No. 05 – Sept.-Oct. (2016 vol. 18) ISSN: 1520-9202 pp: 26-32 DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MITP.2016.84 “Security fatigue has been used to describe experiences with online security. This study identifies the affective manifestations resulting from decision fatigue and the role it plays in users’ security decisions. A semistructured interview protocol was used to collect… Continue Reading

Paper – A Behavioral Approach to Lawyer Mistake and Apology

O’Grady, Catherine, A Behavioral Approach to Lawyer Mistake and Apology (October 5, 2016). 51 New England Law Review, Forthcoming; Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 16-37. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2848612 “The Article explores the social psychology behavioral principles that prevent us from recognizing that we have made a mistake and applies those principles… Continue Reading

How Many Adults Identify as Transgender in the US?

The Williams Institute, June 2016: “Population-based surveys, meaning those that are designed to allow researchers to generalize findings to the population, rarely ask questions to identify transgender people and, therefore, cannot be used to provide estimates of the size and characteristics of the transgender population. The federal government administers several large, national population-based surveys like… Continue Reading

Online or on paper, get the latest FTC identity theft info

“Looking for information on dealing with identity theft? The FTC has new and revised identity theft publications that reflect features of IdentityTheft.gov that make it easier to report and recover from identity theft. Here’s what’s hot off the presses: Identity Theft – What to Know, What to Do gives an overview of identity theft and… Continue Reading