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Ryan Briggs
@ryancbriggs
Raising kids & bread & grant money. Cleaning data & diapers & fish. EA (bed nets not light cone). Social scientist. bsky.app/profile/ryancb…
Toronto, Ontario
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    Ryan Briggs
    @ryancbriggs
    Feb 11
    I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.
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    Ryan Briggs
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    Jul 12, 2025
    I asked my wife why she was in private browsing mode on her phone and she explained that Safari only allows 500 tabs in regular mode so she had to switch. You think you know a person
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    Ryan Briggs
    @ryancbriggs
    Oct 18, 2024
    When I was young I fixed my parents’ computer and now that I’m older I fix computers for my kids. Are we the only generation that knows how computers work?
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    Ryan Briggs
    @ryancbriggs
    Aug 3, 2025
    My 2 year old just looked outside and exclaimed “my rock is growing so fast!” and then the 9 year old whispered to me “I swap it out for a larger rock when she isn’t looking.”
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    Ryan Briggs
    @ryancbriggs
    Jul 21, 2024
    Kinda unnerved by how little my wife knows or cares about the SR-71 Blackbird
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    Ryan Briggs
    @ryancbriggs
    Jul 12, 2025
    Replying to @3firsts
    You people are monsters
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    Ryan Briggs
    @ryancbriggs
    Jul 28, 2025
    I can’t stress enough how much lawlessness undermines basic progressive goals. When it’s safe, everyone benefits but the most vulnerable benefit most. I ran a few times at night here on dark paths and women are there running. Kids use public bathrooms alone.
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    Ryan Briggs
    @ryancbriggs
    Oct 18, 2024
    Yes
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    Ryan Briggs
    @ryancbriggs
    Aug 30, 2025
    My mom used to be an ER nurse and they used to call them “donor cycles” because so many young men would come in dead from head and neck injuries but with good organs.
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    Paul Graham
    @paulg
    Aug 30, 2025
    Wow, I didn't realize the difference between cars and motorcycles was this big. Motorcycles are 29x more dangerous.
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    Ryan Briggs
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    Aug 18, 2024
    Gambling is one thing I’ve flipped on as I got older. I used to laugh off the critics and think of gambling as “a tax on those who can’t do math” but I’ve come to think that’s cruel (and regressive) and paternalism is good here. This paper is another brick in that new wall.
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    Florian Ederer
    @florianederer
    Aug 18, 2024
    Sports betting legalization reduces net investments of households by nearly 14% overall. $1 of sports betting reduces net investment by over $2, increases credit card debt, but has no effect on participation in lotteries or other online gambling outlets. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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    Ryan Briggs
    @ryancbriggs
    Dec 25, 2024
    My Xmas wish is for people to notice obvious reverse causation
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    Tim Urban
    @waitbutwhy
    Dec 25, 2024
    Thoughts below
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    Ryan Briggs
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    Aug 3, 2023
    “The fraud isn’t my fault because my grad students, who weren’t coauthors, did literally all of the work” is quite a take.
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    Ryan Briggs
    @ryancbriggs
    Sep 26, 2025
    This is how most people think about prices and it’s a civilizational problem
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    Ashley Nowicki
    @ashleynowicki_
    Sep 25, 2025
    I don't think a single fan of sports, music, or live entertainment in general would say tickets are underpriced.
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    Ryan Briggs
    @ryancbriggs
    Aug 3, 2025
    Replying to @gtmom
    Yeah I can’t decide if it is cute or devious. Probably both.
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