Podcast: Transgender Women and Sports

Should transgender women be allowed to compete in women’s sports? Is it unfair on cis women if they do? Is it unfair on trans women if they can’t? Is there a coherent logic to the partitioning of sporting events?

Things mentioned in this podcast

• Martina Navratilova’s criticism of transgender women in sport
• Sharron Davies’ criticism of transgender women in sport
• The Heraean Games
• Eligible impairments for paralympic participation

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Podcast: Modelling Other People

Understanding how other people are going to behave is a key element of analysis and forecasting. But professional actors do this all the time. We talk to special guest Edmund Kingsley to find out what insights the acting trade can offer for analysts.

Things mentioned in this podcast

• A summary of attribution biases.
• Acting Emotions by Elly Konjin
• Ed Kingsley on Spotlight; @KingsleyEdmund on Twitter

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Podcast: Tidiness

What’s the point of tidying up? It’s just moving stuff from one place to another. But does it offer cognitive and health benefits, and if so why? 

Things mentioned in this podcast

• Tidiness guru Marie Kondo https://konmari.com/ 
• McMains and Kastner (2011): clutter makes concentration harder https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21228167
• Sitton (1984): we are more positive about people whose desks are messy https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1985-25433-001
• Report about a study showing correlation between tidiness and health outcomes http://healthland.time.com/2010/06/02/what-does-a-clean-house-have-to-do-with-health/
• Saxbi and Repetti (2010): correlation between perceived clutter at home and mental health https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19934011
• Report of a survey showing relationship between tidiness behaviour and sleep https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/news/20110126/want-sleep-better-make-your-bed#1 

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Podcast: Americanisms

Is the slow creep of Americanisms into the British vernacular a pernicious assault on our linguistic heritage, or should we just chill?

Things mentioned in this podcast:

• Goncalves etc al (2018) on the Americanisation of English: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.00781.pdf
• Britishisms in US English: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19929249
• Differences in US and English Harry Potter editions: https://www.hp-lexicon.org/differences-changes-text/

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