Best of #econtwitter - Week of February 9, 2025: good tweets
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From the archives
AI
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Charts
^some more discussion here and here:
^good graphs for an intermediate micro pset 😉
^begging someone to redo these partisan inflation expectation surveys with incentivized respondents, per the new Drobot-Puzzello-Rholes-Wabitsch paper. Free paper idea!!!
^my favorite bit from this SSC essay:
“I want to do a study,” I said.
She looked skeptical. “Have you done the Pre-Study Training?”
I had to admit I hadn’t, so off I went. The training was several hours of videos about how the Nazis had done unethical human experiments. Then after World War II, everybody met up and decided to only do ethical human experiments from then on. And the most important part of being ethical was to have all experiments monitored by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) made of important people who could check whether experiments were ethical or not. I dutifully parroted all this back on the post-test (“Blindly trusting authority to make our ethical decisions for us is the best way to separate ourselves from the Nazis!”) and received my Study Investigator Certification.
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