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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Do most Americans believe in climate change? The answer is more complicated than you might think
Annenberg Public Policy Center postdocs Matt Motta, Dan Chapman, Dominik Stecula, and Kathryn Haglin co-authored an article for The Washington Post about survey methodology and public perceptions of climate change. “We encourage those who study or share climate change opinion to openly discuss their survey design choices,” they wrote. “Given the policy implications, accurately measuring opinion on climate change is more important than ever.”
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Former professor says University of Delaware tenure process stifles diversity
PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts said former University of Delaware professor Arica Coleman’s book, “That the Blood Stay Pure,” which documents the history of black and indigenous relations in Virginia, “provides a crucial missing chapter of America’s racial history.”
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Those silly chairs you keep seeing in the park? They’re Lamzacs
Emily Hund, who recently received her PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication, spoke about the ethics of viral advertising on Instagram. “We all have the ability to turn ourselves into ads now. Some people enjoy participating in that and some people don’t,” said Hund. “And you know, then there’s the question of should we be compensated for this? Is this work?”
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The epic political battle over the legacy of the suffragettes
Dawn Teele of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about the suffrage movement and the problematic nature of framing the Nineteenth Amendment as an inevitable progression toward justice. Doing so, says Teele, feeds “into this idea that if only all of these excluded, downtrodden, marginalized groups could wait their turn or bide their time, then, miraculously, this change they’ve been waiting for will just appear.”
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Does diversity training work?: The Broadsheet
Edward Chang, a doctoral candidate at the Wharton School, spoke about a study he led on workplace diversity trainings. With team members from Wharton and the School of Arts and Sciences at Penn, the researchers found that those with the most power, “men and white people,” were the least receptive to new information about diversity. “A lot of companies are doing these things because they think they work, but we don’t have any evidence to support that,” said Chang.
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ACA linked to reduced racial disparities, earlier diagnosis and treatment in cancer care
Justin Bekelman of the Perelman School of Medicine said a new study on ACA and Medicaid expansions found “specific impacts on patients with cancer,” but did not demonstrate that those impacts included longer survival times or improved quality of life.
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Trump denies calling Duchess Meghan ‘nasty’
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center weighed in on President Trump’s statement about Meghan Markle, saying it was “difficult to know what he meant.”
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‘Screen time’ is over
Johannes Eichstaedt of the School of Arts and Sciences was cited for his research on Facebook usage by people with depression. The study’s subjects appeared to write about themselves on the social media platform more than users without a depression diagnosis. “Suffering generally contracts focus on the self, whereas mental well-being extends focus beyond the self,” said Eichstaedt.
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Will a ‘burnout’ diagnosis help cure what ails the modern worker?
Maria Oquendo of the Perelman School of Medicine wrote about news that the World Health Organization has added burnout as an official medical diagnosis. While some debate the addition’s benefits, Oquendo believes that it’s “an important tool to further research on the seemingly rising modern malady of burnout: a consistent definition.”
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Fighting the gender stereotypes that warp biomedical research
Liisa Hantsoo of the Perelman School of Medicine said that, by only studying male animals in medical research, “we may be missing big pieces of the puzzle.”