#Explanations

Hi #EconTwitter, time for a job market thread! I’m a PhD candidate in economics & public policy at @UMichEcon & @fordschool. I’m interested in understanding educational inequality along various dimensions,
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The GIDS / UCLH study has been published at long last, a day after the High Court judgment last week:https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.01.20241653v1 The BBC team of @hannahsbee and @deb_cohen broke the news:https://www.bbc.co.
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This article about Surrey SEND services relies very, very heavily on what local authority leaders say. And it shows 1/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/rising-demand-surrey-special-educational-19478545 The article provides detail
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So the #Karuparkootam was seen alleging Skanda Shashti Kavacham dedicated to Bhagwan Kartikeya as containing "vulgarcontent". Despite my limited knowledge of Tamil, I hardly have difficulty in comprehending most of
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"In the Western imagination, Japan is rife with shut-ins, celibates, suicides, loners, and obsessive geeks.""These stories both satisfy a base appetite for the odd and serve as a projection of
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I agree we shouldn’t dismiss brain retraining—some people do benefit/there is a there there. @julierehmeyer explains the dangers of extrapolating from individual “success stories” and what is pernicious about programs
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a thread on how I feel about magic and why I bother with it despite being a fairly strong determinist/materialist@GarshytHoel https://twitter.com/selentelechia/status/1273302891021758466 a note about belief: the explanations I have for
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New paper on "The Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation" in Annual Review of Psychology w/ @JoHenrich. Many mechanisms have been proposed to explain human cooperation. How well do they
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It's been popular for twitterstorians & journalists to suggest that 2016 or 2020 was similar to 1968. Perhaps.But I'm more concerned about the risk of the 2020s looking like what
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Today let's talk about why we keep "splitting the data" into different sets.Besides machine learning people being quirky, what else is going on here?Grab your coffee , and let's do
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This stuff around the explicit pressure to have a white male alpha protagonist - and being punished for daring to suggest otherwise - reminds me of an email exchange I
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THREAD. Here are some Remote Teaching ideas for you to Try / Refine for this weeks teaching... all ideas & more can be found herehttp://TryThisTeaching.com/toolkit  As your waiting for students
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Our lame-duck president is having another tantrum over social media that fact-check his lies. His latest rant targets the National Defense Authorization Act, which he says must now include a
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[1/20]”Understanding Tax Policy: How do people reason?” New working paper on how people understand, reason & learn about taxes. What are the mental models that people use to think about
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My @Slate piece on the origins of the gender gap in top-level chess. Many male chess players believe that women are inherently bad at chess, without any true evidence. Arguments
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Let's do free and cheap SAT and ACT resources... A thread for those who don't want to pay for tutoring #sattest #acttest #satscores #actscores Been tutoring 10... 11... Maybe 12
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