Jamie Bernstein

Jamie Bernstein is a data, stats, policy and economics nerd who sometimes pretends she is a photographer. She is @uajamie on Twitter and Instagram. If you like my work here at Skepchick & Mad Art Lab, consider sending me a little sumthin' in my TipJar: @uajamie
  • FeminismPhoto of Trump from a debate saying "I will take care of women."

    Don’t Worry Ladies, President Trump Will Take Care of You

    At this point in the 2016 US presidential election, it’s no secret that Trump is a misogynist who regularly disparages and objectifies women, so it’s not a surprise that he is polling at dismal numbers among women voters. Although women are often treated as a special interest group, they make up 51% of the electorate, so Trump is going to need…

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  • FeminismText from facebook comment: "So, you don't use the words data mining to point out that they're data mining. LOL. I'm starting to think you've never taken a science course.

    Mansplain Monday: Men Mansplain Statistics to Me

    Welcome to the first post of our new series Mansplain Monday wherein we post and discuss some of our “favorite” examples of mansplaining that we have come across during the week. For the first Mansplain Monday I want to get a little bit personal. For those of you who are regular Skepchick readers, you know that I post a lot…

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    Stop Panicking: There Isn’t a 98% Chance of a President Trump Future

    The internet has been all abuzz about the results of a statistical model created by political scientist Helmut Norpoth that says that Trump has a 98%* chance of winning the general election against Hillary Clinton and a 99% chance of winning against Bernie Sanders. According to the New York Post, Norpoth’s model is “scary accurate” and has correctly predicted every…

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    No, Women Do Not Guard Their Men From Sexy Ovulating Werewolf Hussies

    This month researchers* from Arizona State University, University of Iowa, and Pennsylvania State University came out with a study entitled “Women Selectively Guard Their (Desirable) Mates From Ovulating Women,” (apologies for the paywall) which they say proves that women can tell when other women are ovulating and subconsciously try to keep those women away from their man. According to the…

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    In Defense of Pink Science

    Over at Quartz, Shannon Palus wrote a great piece about how condescending so many campaigns to get women into STEM are, whereby companies market to women using female stereotypes under the assumption that it is the only way any woman would be interested in STEM fields. Palus argues that the real reason there are a dearth of women in STEM…

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    Science Proves Some People Are Immune to Deepak Chopra’s Bullshit

    I came across a study this week from the University of Waterloo with a title that is clearly in the running for Best Study Title Ever: “On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit,” by Pennycook, Cheyne, Barre, Koehler and Fugelsang. This creatively-named study looked at individuals’ receptiveness to vague, buzzwordy bullshit statements such as those from Deepak Chopra’s twitter…

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    Kitchen Design Doesn’t Trap Women In Sexist Stereotypes; It Frees Them

    In October in our Chicago skeptic bookclub we read the book The Madam Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science. My personal favorite chapter was on Lillian Gilbreth who, after the death of her husband, began applying efficiency techniques and motion studies used in factories and offices to kitchens and homes, much of which is the basis for…

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    Men, Women Do Not Run For You

    I’ve been regularly doing long distance running for a couple years now and many of my friends are also runners. Running on a regular basis means spending hours a week outside where I am often crossing paths with men who decide they want to yell things at me or talk to me or otherwise interrupt my training. When I get…

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