Peter Dizikes | CAMBRIDGE, Mass (MIT News Office)-- The Covid-19 pandemic, like many other health crises, has had unequal effects on the U.S. population, with communities of color often hit the hardest. A new study co-authored…
When more Covid-19 data doesn’t equal more understanding
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (MIT News Office)-- Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, charts and graphs have helped communicate information about infection rates, deaths, and vaccinations. In some cases, such visualizations can encourage behaviors that reduce virus…
XJTLU Expert: Lessons learned from China’s war on poverty
SUZHOU, China (PRNewswire)-- In 2016, China officially pledged that by the end of 2020, it would raise its remaining 832 counties out of extreme poverty – a target reached last November. Last Thursday, China's President Xi Jinping hailed the achievement…
How shared partisanship leads to social media connections
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- It is no secret that U.S. politics is polarized. An experiment conducted by MIT researchers now shows just how deeply political partisanship directly influences people’s behavior within online social networks. Deploying Twitter bots…
Not all banking crises involve panics
Study shows many kinds of finance-sector failures — not just history’s most famous bank runs — lead to economic downturns. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.(MIT News office) -- A banking crisis is often seen as a self-fulfilling prophecy: The…