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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Brian Berkey of the Wharton School said that even if other companies have communications policies preventing employees from publicly criticizing their employers, that doesn’t make Amazon’s such policy right. “Speaking out about what one thinks the company should be doing doesn’t seem like the sort of thing companies should retaliate against by threatening to fire people or implementing policies that have that potential effect,” he said.
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Joseph Turow of the Annenberg School for Communication responded to Fitbit’s assurance that Google will never sell personal information or use fitness tracker data for Google ads, saying, “There are so many ways to finesse that statement. We have to figure out what that really means.”
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Mitesh Patel of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about a study he led about the effects of competition on physical activity. “We found that participants were motivated the most by competition, and it encouraged them to create habits that stayed in place once the game was over,” he said.
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Paula Chatterjee of the Perelman School of Medicine led a study that found “skilled nursing facilities are more likely to discharge economically vulnerable patients right before their copay kicks in.”
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The Wharton School’s Nihat Bulent Gultekin spoke about Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan and his party’s piecemeal economic strategy, saying, “I don’t think they have any long-term objectives. It would require a constant focus on the economy for an extended period of time.”
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Mathias Basner of the Perelman School of Medicine has led a study that analyzed American Time Use Survey data to see how people spend their time. “We all have 24 hours in a day, so for the people who only sleep five or six hours, are they doing a healthy behavior or sitting in front of the TV eating chips?” said Basner. “We’ve been trying to identify activities that could be traded for more sleep.”
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New research suggests that vaping may not actually help with smoking cessation. “This important study tells us that youth who use e-cigarettes are more likely to continue to use combustible cigarettes after initiating,” said the Perelman School of Medicine’s Janet Audrain-McGovern.
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The School of Veterinary Medicine’s James Serpell described the relationship between dog owners and their animals as a “kind of dress rehearsal for parenting” and the popularity of pet costumes as “part of a national trend toward treating pets, especially dogs, as junior family members.”
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The Annenberg School for Communication’s Kecheng Fang discussed the Chinese government’s failed attempts to suppress discourse about current events on WeChat, a popular messaging platform. “This is a guerrilla war. The government cannot tackle it just like it does traditional media,” said Fang.
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Allison Hoffman of the Law School commented on recent changes to Medicaid. “It’s unlikely that they’re going to come up with the kind of evidence they need to show that the requirements here actually make poor people healthier,” said Hoffman.