Exactly this…it is individualism to the extreme. I don’t think they believe that cutting funding is in the best interest of the collective. But their activists want this so they will do it. It is hard in politics to link cause and effect so the nation as a whole won’t learn from this. I am really heartbroken about all of this. It is possible to reform without burning everything down.
I am actually surprised at how correlated layoffs have been across the industry. Is there a decaunicorn that went against the grain and did not accelerate hiring in the prior 2 years?
They are actually more similar than you would imagine. The national language is English and there is a decent size community in the bigger American cities that make it easier for a Ghanaian immigrant to assimilate.
If the 5 subjects capture all the relevant differences among humans then sure. But, for example, what if they inadvertently selected only heavy coffee drinkers? That being said, I think the strength of their paper might be the molecular experiments they did on cultured cells. The media articles lead with the human experiments because that might be more relatable.
We are all terrible at decision making especially on complex issues. I would guess that people doing deep 'research' are still making shortcuts as well (they just don't realize it). The key here is that the aggregate of terrible individual decisions should point to a better overall decision. Which is why increasing turnout is really important
From personal experience, the US has been fingerprinting non-US nationals at the airports for a decade now. So NSA has had such a database for a significant time. However, I still doubt they have figured out to hack the iPhone using said database. But this is just my personal opinion...