Best of #econtwitter - Week of December 21, 2025: good tweets
Welcome readers old and new to this week’s edition of the Best of Econtwitter newsletter. Please submit suggestions — very much including your own work! — over email or on Twitter @just_economics.
In this week’s edition:
Deep thoughts on “tedious algebra”
#AbolishTenure
Why doesn’t econ have more CS-style conferences?
Update on the job market, featuring the ultrarare newsletter LinkedIn post
…and more
Good tweets
^increasingly convinced that conflating R-squared vs. coefficient size is one of the most important ways people lie with statistics (see also: ‘‘‘heritability’’’ wars)
^this newsletter supports radical civil disobedience against IRBs
Job market
^…how about abolishing tenure!
Public goods
Posts
Charts
Fin
^declinists mogged by price theory
^pain
The R-squared vs coefficient conflation point is super underappreciated. I dunno how many times Ive seen people treat large coefficients as meaningful even when R-squared is basically zero, which tells you theres no predictive power there. One thing ive noticed is this gets especially messy in social science papers where theoretical importance gets confused with statistical magnitude.