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View More NewsBitcoin (BTC) price action is offering mixed signals after hitting $80,000 as traders diverge on market trajectory.Key points:Bitcoin weekly relative strength index (RSI) reaches 58.3, repeating a bullish divergence that accompanied the end of the 2022 bear market.Daily RSI values reach their most “overbought” since November 2024 near 83.Stochastic RSI prints a key crossover but avoids copying previous zero-level bear-market lows.Weekly RSI echoes Bitcoin’s 2022 bear-market bottomRelative strength index (RSI) data across daily, weekly and two-month time frames has added to the debate over whether last week’s 25% rebound by Bitcoin will endure.RSI is a classic indicator for trend momentum.…
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What follows is an excerpt from The Status of Scholarly Standards in Sociology, by Ashley T. Rubin, Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Professor Rubin’s report was published earlier this month under the auspices of the Vanderbilt–WashU Commission on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences. Its Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences was published in April and excerpted in Quillette.Research Blind Spots and Intellectual Narrowing Sociology shows a heavy emphasis on some topics and not on others. Some topics’ popularity have declined over time…
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