I would keep in mind "rewriting the law" is already going to vary by state since only 19 actually make it illegal to do so. Therefore knowing when you can't leave a child in a car (if the law is not a factor) is very much the responsibility of the parent. Sure we recommend people don't do it because of the risk. …

Fair enough. But my point is that this is the kind of thing people have reflexive responses to when the variables involved are fairly controllable. The more risk averse you are, the more you're going to display total caution EVEN if that caution isn't warranted. The choice to wear a seatbelt has a cost to a person…

Of what though? My single mother left me in the car many times around that age especially on long trips. Often it was my choice and often she was gone for less than 5 minutes. Yes, bad things can happen when someone makes that choice. But can doesn't mean "probably", "likely", or "on average."

Is it though? Tell that to the gaming industry.

The problem is it doesn't matter unless reactions to the rhetoric actually sway the election. The reaction to homophobia is going to have to result in a gay or lesbian person winning because of it. Ditto for sexism. I just don't see politics working that way though since it requires self interest be a smaller…

And that's sort of the point of the study. People believe it exists yet swear they're not contributing. It exists, yet it's not a major problem. How would people that lack that experience know these things? And these really aren't just millennial polls. If you looked at polls for Gen X, they would not look…

Interesting they went with the fourteenth amendment. I'd think you could settle this in the Constitution proper with the commerce clause and the supremacy clause. Unless the state is actually regulating this as a health issue (only one of the aspects they mention), I fail to see where they are constitutionally…

In many areas I've seen that experience, yes. In a city where you can drive everywhere and your job/social group restricts you to areas where you do not experience a great amount of diversity unless you intentionally break out of it, yes it happens. That doesn't mean people don't get some diversity at an office per…

I don't think you can conflate managerial traits with entertainment and political traits. Business management is much more intimate and you own the room you create. You pay for excess in a way that political and entertainment figures don't. O'Reilly et. al derive popularity primarily from ratings and people watch…

I think it might be more simple than that. Most cities aren't culturally smashed together in general. New York has been by far the largest exception I've lived in mainly because of the major mode of transportation and how compact the city is. In most others though, because you can find yourself easily and…

Interesting that despite these being a "random" sample, one is from New York, one was born in New York, one went to school in New York, and the other was from Dallas. Kinda funny the kerfuffle honestly.

I think the biggest obstacle to that is just that most start ups and the angel investors that fund them tend to walk in the same circles. They're as diverse as... well an insular group of ivy league exes and "made it rich quick" types you'd expect. Even when I've been around the ones I might call diverse, it's been…

I respect that. I want equality for all genders too which is why I identify as a feminist as well. But feminism as a movement has been attacking STEM as a feminist issue for a decade (as they should). Boys falling down in education has been an issue since 2001. Actually I think it was the 80's, but the national…

Also consider Rosanne Barr in how she actually responded to Lindy West (many articles ago in a completely different context and topic.) There's male privilege but there's also privilege from class and that often times is a larger direct influence on our lives. A lot of these guys perhaps went to schools that weren't…

In general, I assume politicians are not great parents. That's not a personal dig, rather they have all the work hassles of everyone else with the added bonus of constant campaigning, regular networking, and tight scheduling. That doesn't even get into the scrutiny children can come under by being part of a…

This. I'm not sure it's so much a just-world fallacy as Kimani posits so much as human beings, being a socially driven species, doesn't really have a way to reintegrate the socially outcast. There's no "social reintroduction" program we have if people develop issues in socialization due to school experience or…

Harpo is grumpy. America, why do you hate Harpo?

Well it's probably a good thing a diagnosis can't be made until then since frankly many disorders tend to look very mix and match. Add to that you have a mix of children attempting to test boundaries, learning at a quick rate (I've known a few children who turned out to not be poorly adjusted, they simply did not…