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Letter rotations: Through the magnifying glass and what evidence found there
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
Pablo Gómez (psychology) co-wrote a study about expert readers who have “a wide tolerance for distortions of the letters that make up a word. Nevertheless, the limits of this invariance are still under debate. To scrutinize this issue, we focused on a single parameter, letter rotation, as it serves to disentangle the predictions from neurally inspired models of word recognition.”
Hate crimes rose 12 percent in 2021, F.B.I. finds
The New York Times
Brian Levin, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, which independently monitors hate crimes in cities across the country, commented on the updated FBI hate crime report that showed a 12 percent increase between 2020 and 2021. But those numbers, Levin said, are likely underestimates.
“We’re in a new era of multiyear elevated and record-breaking historic levels,” Levin said.
Updated FBI hate crime report points to ‘a unique and disturbing era,’ CSUSB’s Brian Levin says
Associated Press
The FBI’s updated report on hate crimes now include those and other large departments, and the total is the highest level in decades, said Brian Levin, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
“We are in a unique and disturbing era where hate crimes overall stay elevated for longer punctuated by broken records,” he said.
FBI updates 2021 hate crime report: It’s much worse
Jewish Press
Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, commented on the updated hate crime report from the FBI, released on March 12. The FBI’s Supplemental 2021 Hate Crime Statistics report that includes all law enforcement agency hate crime incident reporting. And while the December report on the 2021 hate crime dataset included 7,262 incidents and 8,673 related offenses, the supplemental hate crime dataset reports involve 10,840 incidents and 12,411 related offenses.
Levin told the AP: “We are in a unique and disturbing era where hate crimes overall stay elevated for longer, punctuated by broken records.”
US hate crimes continued alarming rise in 2021, FBI data shows
The Guardian
The number of US hate crimes increased again in 2021, continuing an alarming rise, according to FBI data released on Monday. The total is the highest it has been in decades, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University-San Bernardino, Brian Levin, told the Associated Press.
US hate crimes hit record high: FBI updated report
VOA News
Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, commented on the updated hate crime report from the FBI, released on March 12. The number of hate crimes in the United States jumped dramatically in 2021 to set a record high of nearly 11,000 incidents, the FBI said.
"This represents a horrifying new era that we're in with elevated historic levels across many years and a broken record in 2021," Levin said in an interview with VOA.
Hate crimes in U.S. rose to highest-ever level in 2021, FBI says
The Washington Post via the Bend (Ore.) Bulletin
Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University at San Bernardino, who tracks hate-crime data, was interviewed about the updated FBI hate crimes report. Hate crimes in the United States rose in 2021 to the highest level since the federal government began tracking the data more than three decades ago, the FBI said Monday in a new report that also reflected a record spike in attacks targeting people of Asian descent.
“This is a horrifying record that is greater than what we saw in 2001,” said Levin.
“What this establishes, along with our research, is that we have hit an inflection point now, in this decade, in regards to hate crimes that we haven’t seen since modern data collection began,” Levin said in an interview Monday. “The significance of this is that there are now multiple years of increases.”
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