#Causal

Jonathan Rosa

DrJonathanRosa

A reminder for junior scholars: When engaging with media about your work, consider answering the questions you want to be asked regardless of what you’re actually asked—a central part of

Deirdre Tobias, ScD

deirdre_tobias

Country-level correlation studies like the "lettuce will kill you" preprint provide epidemiologists with a good laugh-cry, & I want to be sure everyone understands why.So why are diet/disease correlations (AKA

Alyasah ''Ali'' Sewell, Ph.D.

aasewell

1/n. This, right here, is why I teach. No other reason. If you think race is a control variable, your racial theory is a hair to the left of essentialists.

Carrie Conaway

clconaway

Today I did a presentation for @hgse master's students on how to read a research paper in 15 minutes. Thought I'd share my suggestions. Thread follows.(Research nerds: This is how

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

Graphs like the ones below scare me. I can't see how one can spin this as anything other than a disaster in the making. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html People often complain that I'm

Terry Bouton

TerryBoutonHist

And the crowd reviled them for it. They booed the police and FBI swat team, calling them traitors and murderers. A man on the back Capitol steps ripped up a

William Clare Roberts

MarxinHell

I just had a very fruitful discussion (with some of the McGill poli sci grad students and my colleague @KrzPelc ) of @owasow's much discussed APSR paper, "Agenda Seeding: How

Carrie E. Fry, PhD

cefry437

Are you a health or education policy researcher? Health economist? Clinical epidemiologist? Do you analyze two-group/two-time-period (quasi-experimental) studies? If so, then this methods thread is for you! 1/ Inspired by

Michela Tincani

MichelaTincani

College education in the OECD is characterized by high rates of dropout and of major switching. Is the system good at letting students learn about match-quality through experimentation, or bad

Amy Orben

OrbenAmy

Reminder about the "social media is harming girls" headlines making the rounds today. Classic case of a study that would have merited academic peer review before a major press release

karmel choi

karmelchoi

Which modifiable factors—diet, physical activity, media use, sleep habits, social interaction, and/or environmental exposures—may be most important for preventing #depression? We used a 2-stage, genetically informed approach to explore

Matthew Jordan

matt__jordan

New work with @ShaneFs5cents @boukekt & Nick Adolph: "Discounts Shift the Demand Curve for Life-saving Medications". We find huge effects of discounts on drug demand—patients are more likely to buy

Ingo Rohlfing

ingorohlfing

There is a highly instructive symposium on "Veil of Ignorance" #ProcessTracing in the new @APSAtweets QMMR publication https://www.qmmrpublication.com/uploads/1/1/4/9/114986293/qmmr_fall2020_vol-18_no-2.pdf There is lots to say ab

Paradigm Shift Platforms

Shift_Platforms

Along with next-day health restoration, sufficient niacin supply is also basically 100% ensured prophylactic against #COVID19 / viral (and many other conditions/diseases) too (unlike the vaccines, which provide truly only

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

People like this are why I habitually delete my threads after saving them these days (I forgot this time), because it takes a copious amount of illiteracy & forced interpretation

Gavin Hales

gmhales

5 points on the substance of the 2018 Home Office analysis on increases in serious violence reported here:1) Highlights drug markets as a key driver2) 1/2 the increase in #knifecrime/#guncrime/robbery

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