Economist on "Admin people are making me watch videos"
to make me learn about my unconscious biases the black person in the video is of course named JAMAL
View ArticleEconomist on "The remainder of this paper is organized as follows."
We're all a bunch of pretentious asses.
View ArticleEconomist on "STATA is giving very low R-squares this week"
Been a bad week. The highest R-squared STATA has given me is 0.02. I will see if I can get batter luck, using EVIEWS, with this dataset I am working with. I think STATA is upset with me.
View ArticleEconomist on "Advisor invited me out to fancy dinner"
It's a tony place with candles and white tablecloths. Do you think they'll let me bring my own jar of peanut butter?
View ArticleEconomist on "Are UK salaries low because of convention?"
In the old days, most people who became academics came from rich, landed families. They didn't need money. They became academics for the prestige/they really liked research. But now that the old class...
View ArticleEconomist on "How many flyouts did the praised Federico Francisco Fernandez...
dude's gonna get a massive JERB
View ArticleEconomist on "Carleton University removes scales from gym locker rooms since...
You read that correctly: Carleton University removed scales from its gym locker rooms because women might step on them and see they are fat whales.To those who thought PC wasn't destroying this planet,...
View ArticleEconomist on "McCloskeyites, put down your lovingly dog-eared Rhetoric of...
riddle me this: in her multivolume paean to the virtues, dignity, etc. of the bourgeoisie, what does she have to say about family size, legitimacy, and the like? My casual search hasn't found...
View ArticleEconomist on "Reflections of a Former Heckman RA"
I just finished up as one of Jim Heckman's RAs. Given his reputation, I thought that I would share my experience.I knew Heckman's reputation going into the job. So I braced myself for a low quality of...
View ArticleEconomist on "Hi there! New guy here. Name's ross"
new member. new story. first time/long time. love talking economics over a good bourbon.currently researching horse trade in the late 1800s during the industrial revolution. really fascinating...
View ArticleEconomist on "Who would have thought that not giving a crap about your PhD...
... your program falling down the USnews graduate program ranking. The world is getting very cray cray.
View ArticleEconomist on "Middlebury College Econ Prof beaten by "anti facists""
http://www.mrctv.org/blog/anti-fascist-protesters-injure-professor-stop-free-speechLOL
View ArticleEconomist on "Taleb's new poll"
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/841673354432110592did an economist abuse him as a child? his hate fetish is bizarre.
View ArticleEconomist on "Hugh Mnemonics Travels to Vermont"
This is the second act in the story of Hugh Mnemonics, which began here:https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/humanomics-now-working-for-greg-lukianoff-at-fire-a-dramatizationWhen we left off, Greg...
View ArticleEconomist on ""A Cautious Case for Socialism", K.J. Arrow (1978)"
please keep discussion of this non-reddity to avoid deletion of thread by mods, if you are a lefty troll or a CMT seriously pls ignore this thread. you are not going to change other people's views on...
View ArticleEconomist on "Economics professor turns to crowdfunding to pay salary"
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/economics-professor-turns-to-crowdfunding-to-pay-salary
View ArticleEconomist on "Stats bro here with question"
I was lured into a sociology seminar yesterday, and the speaker informed us that agents may respond to the predictions of economic models in ways that undermine those predictions. As groundbreaking as...
View ArticleEconomist on "Is being a professor at a flagship state school the ideal...
- >$200k in salary - reasonable teaching load of 2/2 or 2/1, easy course buy-out opportunities - minimum expectations for research after clearing the tenure threshold, which makes the corruption of...
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