#Math

Brendan Bartanen

BrendanBartanen

Start the week with new work (w/ @JasonAGrissom) on the key role principals play in shaping teacher diversity. "School Principal Race, Teacher Racial Diversity, and Student Achievement" now online at

dream

dreamwastaken

Just a rant here about speedrunning. The speedrun world record for Minecraft 1.16 AND 1.15 have both been beaten twice in a row by two different pairs of people doing

Jordan Peeples

JordanPeeples4

*A thread for upcoming first-year Econ PhD students*As the academic year is approaching, I would like to give brief advice based on my experience as a first-year PhD student who

sm00sh

J_Dahlin

Momentum Charts 101Purpose: measures the momentum of the 28d moving avgIt answers the question "Was the past week better or worse than the past 28d and by how much?"This is

🔥 Kareem Carr 🔥

kareem_carr

There are a few ways to check if a belief is true in science. 1. You can test it via the scientific method, 2. rely on the opinion of a

Amr Ammourazz

ammourazz

Oooh so this is a fun question, and I'm gonna do it as a QRT cause I think this'll be useful for y'all!And if you're reading this like: WTF is

Sridhar Ramesh

RadishHarmers

PEMDAS, my ass. Literally the only useful thing that PEMDAS/BODMAS/whatever conveys correctly is that, where there would otherwise be ambiguity, notational convention is for multiplication to take precedence over addition/subtraction.

David Perell

david_perell

Conventional wisdom says that more education is better.But I think we need less. People should be able to find their first jobs with 12-18 months of vocational training. Then, once

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

Since @ElysiumHQ e-mailed me this morning about their new product (Vitamin B megadoses), it's worth noting that in the best studies, and over and over again, long term micronutrient megadosing

Trevor Smith

GaFarmer80

Based on prices in 1950, adjusted for inflation to 2020, cotton should be $4.35/lb. Accounting for yield increases and inflation, to gross the same money per acre as they did

Louisa 🌈👭

LouisatheLast

Oh it can be bothhttps://twitter.com/kazADHD/status/1359105768012865537 I was great in class (unless I wasn't interested, in which case I was at least silently doodling). I just never did get the hang

Lake

Lake5m1th

Is it possible that disinfo and media representation of the phenomenon is not just superficial obfuscation of the "truth" but designed to effectively reshape aspects of it with images/stories via

Zhou 'eat hot chip' Enlai

massiveblunder

This thread saying that Kamala is one of the "most progressive" senators based on "metrics" is going around.As someone who works with stats, I'm triggered when political actors abuse popular

🔥 Kareem Carr 🔥

kareem_carr

When academic experts like me try to share our knowledge on social media, we attract our own special kinds of reply guys (and gals!).Here's my list of academic reply guys!

#El™ con los #s 🇵🇷

AmericanNumbers

Here's a good turnout estimate for tomorrowHe has it at 160 m votes and 67% of eligible voters.That's highest turnout as a % of the eligible population since 1900 &

Chris Nicholas

DrChrisNicholas

Over 1 in 4 people in the USA is infected with or has been infected with #COVID19. I think about that every time I walk through the hospital, passing hundreds

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