Survey response rates have collapsed from 30-50% in the 1970s to as low as 5% today, while AI agents now account for an estimated 20% of survey responses, according to a new analysis.

The UK’s Office for National Statistics has seen response rates dr…

Abstract of a paper featured on NBER: This year marks the 40th anniversary of the NBER Macro Annual Conference, founded in 1986. This paper reviews the evolution of mainstream macroeconomics since then. It presents my views, informed by a survey of a n…

FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver, on the site’s demise: Last night, as President Trump delivered his State of the Union address, the Wall Street Journal reported that ABC News would lay off the remaining staff at 538 as part of broader cuts within c…

Slashdot’s 10 most-visited stories of 2023 seemed to touch on all the themes of the year, with a story about AI, two about electric cars, two stories about Linux, and two about the Rust programming language.

And at the top of this list, the #1 story …

“For several years, thousands more high-earning, well-educated workers have left California than have moved in,” reports the Los Angeles Times:

Even though California has experienced lopsided out-migration for decades, the financial blow has been cush…

“For several years, thousands more high-earning, well-educated workers have left California than have moved in,” reports the Los Angeles Times:

Even though California has experienced lopsided out-migration for decades, the financial blow has been cush…

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:

Working from home appears to be here to stay, especially for women and college-educated workers, according to economic data released Thursday that revealed how Americans spent their time…

“Harvard Scholar Who Studies Honesty Is Accused of Fabricating Findings,” writes the New York Times. The Harvard Crimson student newspaper has the details:

At least four papers authored by Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino contain fraud…

A new Harris Poll shared exclusively with Fast Company found that most Americans would prefer to live “in a simpler era before everyone was obsessed with screens and social media,” reports Fast Company, adding “this sentiment is especially strong among…

What happens when Stack Overflow’s senior research analyst delves more deeply into results from their annual Developer Survey?

Rust, Elixir, Clojure, Typescript, and Julia are at the top of the list of Most Loved Programming Languages. However, in loo…