Today's office odor is rotten eggs and sewage, so that's exciting!
Important for me to feel this every now and again, because it helps me imagine what grad students think when they read papers (always the finished product version) and then are expected to write them. Very easy to just totally shut down...
Indeed:
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I often read something I wrote (after not looking at it for a while), particularly a final draft, and wonder who the hell wrote it b/c I cannot fathom having done all the work to make it not be gobblygook (but apparently I did...?)
To be fair, the movie 61* is entirely about the insanity of this viewpoint that indeed existed at the time...
I see that a journalist today has implied that it is uncouth to break a record (but not actually a record) if the person who set it is dead.
Big news for record book writers, if true.
Yes!
Chronicle has their headline article as an interview with Scott Galloway, who makes a wide range of claims about college tuition increasing dramatically faster than the rate of inflation.
On the same day, you'd miss this small link down low if you weren't looking:
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Apparently Eugenio Suarez had his citizenship application taken off the books because he's Venezuelan and his response was "it is what it is."
Lots of valid criticisms of the application of NHST, but journal policies outlawing significance testing altogether - even when providing full intervals for your estimates alongside p-value - seems to have completely lost the plot on statistical practice.
But what do I know...
I slid down this identical playground slide across the street from my house just last weekend with my daughter. I am truly fascinated by this “my mommy doesn’t cut the crust off my grilled cheese anymore” genre of post.
😂I love it this is great
@statsinthewild.bsky.social
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The base card is a closeup of him, I think it's just the autograph that's the bunt pic. Lucky for you, he's very cheap now!
I think LLMs have uses, but "1,000 targets, including a girls elementary school we hit twice with precision munitions" is indeed representative of their state-of-the-art—and likely a fundamental limitation of the technology.
Sometimes sloppiness is okay; sometimes it's 160 dead children.
Not sure if you’ve seen this one or not. Nothing like a pic of what looks to be a bunt popup (or a horrendous whiff by Pache on the attempt)
With very large numbers of n’s you don’t need randomization, and with LLM’s we can generate very large numbers of n’s, so I think all of science is solved by now. I don’t see any problems with this.
In the interest of their safety, I sure hope all these guys batted left handed...😬
So you're saying you found the right key...
NAASE invites nominations for the positions of President-elect (to serve 2026-2028, then 2028-2030 as president) and at-large executive committee member (2026-2030). Nominations should be sent to the chair of the nominating committee Mike Leeds (Temple University) by March 31, 2026.
NAASE invites nominations for the 2026 Larry Hadley Service Award recipient. Nominations should explain how the person “has distinguished herself or himself through service to NAASE and the field of sports economics” and be sent to Frank Stephenson (Berry College) by 3/31/26.
3rd UMBC Sports Econ Conference Update
47 papers as we reach the submission deadline for the 3 day conference in June.
The critique of unmeasured confounding is often levied in a lazy/broad way. It is trivially true in any observational study. But if the critic can't think of a plausible such confounder and posit a reasonable direction/magnitude of its bias then they're not doing productive science.
Anti-fascism should have broad support across the American political spectrum. Elections need to be defended. Here's an open letter from retired professors at HBS in which we call for business leaders to address that need.
#econsky #academicsky
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Ah. I'm usually adding one at a time when I get them, rather than big batch adds.
Huh. Just popped on to see and it seems to be running OK for me.
They recently-ish updated the interface and I've found it to be waaaaaay faster than it used to be. But I haven't been on since last week. How "lately" are we talking?
How many wins can Early Winn win if Early Winn doesn't leave early?
This is the kind of thing the internet was made for
