Public health experts are learning from Canada’s anti-mask protests

Public Protests, Social Media and Policy Making Public Protests, Social Media and Policy Making *

We explore the limits of petitions and public protests as mechanisms to aggregate dispersed information. We show that if citizens’ signals are not sufficiently precise, information aggregation is impossible, even if the conflict with the policy-maker is small, no matter how large is the population of informed citizens. We characterize the conditions on conflict and the signal structure that gua...

Learning from Crowds and Experts

Crowdsourcing services are often used to collect a large amount of labeled data for machine learning. Although they provide us an easy way to get labels at very low cost in a short period, they have serious limitations. One of them is the variable quality of the crowd-generated data. There have been many attempts to increase the reliability of crowd-generated data and the quality of classifiers...

Glass structures – learning from experts

Despite the increasing research activity on structural use of glass in the past years, there is still a lack of comprehensive design codes and standards linked to real-life applications on a structural level. However, more and more ambitious buildings and structures are built every year. Thus the knowledge is out there. The aim of the presented project is to collect data on the existing design ...

GPs are told to treat with scepticism advice on anti-flu drugs from Public Health England.

GPs in three English counties have been told to be wary of advice from Public Health England (PHE) to prescribe oseltamivir (Tamiflu) prophylactically to nursing home residents, because of a lack of evidence that the drug is useful in such circumstances. Paul Roblin, CEO of the medical committee representing GPs in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire, has written to GPs in his area to w...

An Educational Response to Student Protests. Learning from Hannah Arendt