Bag of Randomness for Wednesday, December 11, 2019
While watching Wheel of Fortune, nine-year-old DaughterGeeding walks in with a bewilder face and asks, “Where’s Pat?” We explained he missed the show because of surgery and Vanna is filling in. She retorted with, “And why didn’t you tell me about this?”
In The Surprising Breadth of Harbingers of Failure (Sci-Hub mirror), a trio of economists and business-school profs build on a 2015 Journal of Marketing Research paper that claimed that some households’ purchasing preferences are a reliable indicator of which products will fail — that is, if households in a certain ZIP code like a product, it will probably not succeed. The original paper calls these “harbinger households.”
Last year, Dallas’ police and fire departments teamed up with Parkland Hospital to rethink how they responded to 911 calls involving mental health crises. They placed a social worker inside the dispatch center to triage calls and sent out a special team staffed with a mental health professional whenever possible. They targeted South Central Dallas, the area with the highest concentration of mental health-related calls. The hope was that social workers could handle these cases without relying on the city’s overcrowded emergency rooms and jails.
Take note that we attempted to judge the shows in question on their own independent merits; while many of us have read the books these shows are based on, we didn’t base our decisions on fidelity to, or creativity of departure from, the original text. We just wanted to pick the best television experiences.
I love the idea of dispatching a social worker and/or mental health worker to incidents that could benefit!
There was no link for your mention on The 10 Best Literary TV Adaptations of the Decade. It sounded like a good list, so I googled and found this one https://lithub.com/the-10-best-literary-tv-adaptations-of-the-decade/
We’ve seen several of them, but I didn’t know some were based on books.
I’m surprised Dallas has only recently utilized social workers for mental health 911 calls. Tarrant County has had a similar program for years, with several cities within the county utilizing the service. The primary objective is diversion of mental health cases to treatment instead of jail. It’s been effective.
You forgot the link on the literary adaptations point, but I went and found it with the Googles. Nice list and I need to go back and watch most of the list. I was glad to see The Leftovers make the cut and I need to catch up with the final season. The first 2 seasons were probably the most compelling seasons of any show I’ve ever watched. I know people get beaten down on the Lindelhof shows because they tend to leave you hanging on the details, but I loved it.
I love the idea of dispatching a social worker and/or mental health worker to incidents that could benefit!
There was no link for your mention on The 10 Best Literary TV Adaptations of the Decade. It sounded like a good list, so I googled and found this one https://lithub.com/the-10-best-literary-tv-adaptations-of-the-decade/
We’ve seen several of them, but I didn’t know some were based on books.
Wishing you well!
Thanks, Andrea, and I had no idea they were based on books either.
I’m surprised Dallas has only recently utilized social workers for mental health 911 calls. Tarrant County has had a similar program for years, with several cities within the county utilizing the service. The primary objective is diversion of mental health cases to treatment instead of jail. It’s been effective.
You forgot the link on the literary adaptations point, but I went and found it with the Googles. Nice list and I need to go back and watch most of the list. I was glad to see The Leftovers make the cut and I need to catch up with the final season. The first 2 seasons were probably the most compelling seasons of any show I’ve ever watched. I know people get beaten down on the Lindelhof shows because they tend to leave you hanging on the details, but I loved it.
Opps, silly me. Thanks for letting me know, I just updated it.