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Matt Blackwell
matt_blackwell
Very sad to hear about the passing of Dick Fenno. In my time at Rochester, I had a couple of interactions with him that I’ll remember fondly. (1) I had
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Office of Unspecified Services
ONAN_OUS
As your resident vol explainer guy, here's a long-form version of how one can be down 200% a la Malachite. They were doing capped vs. uncapped variance swaps, 'picking up
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Christopher Chabris
cfchabris
The studies claiming GRE isn’t a valid predictor were all small (even just one department) and suffered from selection and range restriction issues and probably shouldn’t have been published. Kuncel’s
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AAAL Grads
AAALGrads
Because we are all graduate students, our thread has to start with @ProfessorIsIn. You might know the blog, but do you know the podcast? This is valuable career advice coming
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Gerg
Gergyl
I'm curious about funny money economics, which has a long history in our region -- Social Credit in NZ, and of course Bill Mitchell's MMT. Relevant atm with governments around
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Katelyn Greenlee
stinekey
#NFPWeek discourse no one wants: Here's a not-gross VERY basic intro to NFP.NFP, also called FAM or fertility awareness methods, are ways to observe a woman's fertility. You use that
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Miriam Gershow
miriamgershow
Why are faculty still posting about “working harder” to create online classes, and therefore students need to stop asking for tuition reductions? A thread. 1/5 Student tuition $ has never
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Travis Kimmel
coloradotravis
The price of Education / Healthcare / is going up! Isn’t that QE-driven price inflation I’m feeling?No, it’s just QE-driven price distortion!A thread unpacking the difference. All around Twitter,
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John Pfaff
JohnFPfaff
I still find myself amazed that decades of cost-benefit analyses of crim justice policy in econ, criminology and other fields never seriously wrestled w opportunity cost.If $1 spent on, say,
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Newman Nahas
NahasNewman
No one has ever denied the possibility of pediatric infection or transmission. You are engaging with a straw man. The real question has always been a quantitative one: do children
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Adriaan
A_van_der_graaf
Today we're sharing an analysis of the genetics behind two important COVID-19 genes: ACE2 and TMPRSS2. A thread on what we have found 1/9https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.22.20074963v1 @LifelinesNL @serenasanna1 ACE2 and TMPRSS2 are
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Wes Pegden
WesPegden
Since the beginning of the pandemic, one prominent story told for how we move forward (most recently in the JSM) is that suppression measures must be used to get cases
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Frontline Llama
valley_llama
Part 3/3:So the open market sale of government bonds raises yields, hence interest rates, the price of money, and discourages borrowing from commercial banks. Conversely, the purchase of government bonds
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Anna Gifty is finally on Tik Tok
itsafronomics
The silence from white academics on my TL concerning Jessica Krug is deafening, especially because the academy is historically structurally violent against Black women. Black women are told that they
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Thomas Chatterton Williams 🌍 🎧
thomaschattwill
Bodies being layered on top of each other in mass graves in NYC. This is straight out of The Plague.https://twitter.com/cbsnews/status/1248596672776671232 For context: “Normally, about 25 bodies a week are interred
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Alex Good
goodalexander
Day in the life of a hybrid quantitative qualitative trader. A thread 1/ Wake up 7:00 EST. Chug cold brew coffee, then water. Have a script that highlights top 10
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