Best of #econtwitter - Week of October 27, 2024: paper summaries
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Idiosyncratic favorites
^two useful comments:
@JasonFKD: “Reading the abstract, they appear to be looking at the XP results on the XP platform. I'd guess most meaningful distortion happens downstream, e.g., "let's ignore this month because it's weird."”
@deaneckles: “Important to note that in this setting, the main mechanism for p-hacking would be optional stopping”
^Matt Yglesias coverage; pseudoerasmus comments