Saturday Link Love: Horror Stories, Replication, and Black Lives

Saturday Link Love is a feature where I collect and post links to various articles I’ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you’ve come along as well! The more the merrier.

Horror Is Good for You (and Even Better for Your Kids), on tor.com—“Kids live in a world of insane giants already. Nothing is the right size. The doorknobs are too high, the chairs too big… They have little agency of their own, and are barely given the power to even choose their own clothes.”

Las Vegas Is Only the Deadliest Shooting in US History Because They Don’t Count Black Lives, on The Root—“The militia ordered every black person in the city to show a pass or leave. The blacks who didn’t were rounded up with their families and executed. In all, between 35 and 100 blacks were killed.”

Sociology’s culture of trust, don’t verify, on Family Inequality—“Scholars and readers in sociology don’t normally question whether specific quotes in qualitative research are real or not. We argue over the interpretation, or elements of the research design … But if we simply don’t trust the author, what do we do?”

The different media spheres of the right and the left — and how they’re throwing elections to the Republicans, on Sociological Images—“Faris and his co-authors found that the right exploited the left’s journalistic principles, pushing left-leaning and neutral media outlets to cover negative stories about Clinton by claiming that not doing so was biased.”

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