

Rachel M. Stein
19 posts

@RachelMStein1
Recovering academic, Chief Analyst @EquisLabs, audiobook junkie, aspiring novelist. She/hers. All opinions are my own, especially the wrong ones!





First, on Obama: The popularist effort to remind people that Obama exerted message discipline in 08 and 12 risks underselling the obvious: Obama was (and is!) Black, liberal, cosmopolitan and in 08, the anti-war candidate. He was a mobilizer first and foremost.


@JanesDueProcess @westfundtx @casnhtx @TheBridgeATX @FundTexasChoice @TheAfiyaCtr @LaFronteraFund @TEAFund @WWHAlliance @lilithfund @BBFundTX @avowtexas @TumaTime @andreagrimes @alexazura (7/7) On nights like tonight, I think about Texans like Rosie. All any of us want is to be able to make our own decisions about our lives and be in control of our own destiny. She died wanting that, and in her honor we fight so that no one else has to. texasobserver.org/rosie-jimenez-…


Ok so chapter 12 of “Noise” by Kahneman, Sibony and Sunstein contains a repeated, incorrect claim about stats / causality: the claim that no correlation implies no causation. Easy to disprove this claim, no math needed, see my next tweet.



.@PeteWilliamsNBC on MSNBC: At least one IED was found. It's now in the hands of law enforcement.