#BREAKING 🚨 David Littleproud has announced the Nationals will NOT renew their coalition agreement with the Liberal Party

Littleproud says the Nationals will now “sit alone”

I've not updated this because honestly it's a very smooth experience. No hiccups, just been going through, trying to get my estimated date of completion down to May.

People complained about the quizzes being time-limited but honestly I like it. Would defo recommend so far

This will be my habit tracker thread

The placement put me at 71% completion for Foundations I. After about an hour I'm at 73% - there's a LOT of content. There's a leaderboard (similar to Duolingo's) so the gamification I expect will be quite effective

What Difference-in-Differences Has in Common with Dungeons & Dragons – Homepage I discuss why DiD is not the panacea for causal inference that it is often claimed–like all assumptions, the assumptions of DiD can only be validated within a certain research design, and there is no ...

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What does difference-in-differences have in common with Dungeons & Dragons?

Answer: the willing suspension of disbelief in unprovable assumptions.

Can we trust DiD? I show when we can with a *new* way to simulate the power of DiD.

#rstats

www.robertkubinec.com/post/did_dnd/

I also have weird gaps in my knowledge. I've taken undergrad linear algebra and PhD probability but I've never taken trigonometry or calculus. I do not have the slightest idea of what a "unit circle" is and I'm reluctant to find out. In sum, Math Academy's focus on foundational gaps was appealing

The main motivation is that I ***hate*** passive learning via videos. I cannot sit through Professor Leonard or Gilbert Strang for an hour without having "stakes" w.r.t. participation and assessment. I learned programming via actually doing it for hours and days on end, so why not math too?

Decided to give Math Academy a shot. My goal is 50xp/day and I'll be shooting to finish the three mathematical foundation courses (basic arithmetic to linear algebra, calculus, and probability) by the end of the Summer. Pricing is $50/month but I've heard good things. Will report back as I go!

@grok is this real

Any time I get tired of coding I think about my counterfactual day where I didn't get into a PhD program and get right back to it

Survey design moment of the day: this household convenience variable, which tracks the quantity of 7 items (radio, TV, etc.), each stored in a digit of this integer with zero metadata attached

Thank you Afrobarometer very cool

Your praxis for the day can be downloading the Transit app and answering the surveys when you ride

Today's a good day to switch to Positron

For those who missed this travesty on Xitter

Bluesky is cool and all but where are the linkedin statisticians posting about OLS assumptions

My contribution to The Discourse is that I lose far more time writing code in base R than I lose executing tidyverse code

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I am going to become the joker

Two maps the the contiguous United States. The first is colored with the 4 time zones. Above that map states "say no to time zones". The bottom is the same map but with a continuous color gradient. Above that map states "say yes to the time gradient"

We must stand against the arbitrary categorization of continuous variables!

... and that's why I'm proud to announce my support of abolishing time zones in favor of the time gradient

All roads lead to OLS

I love log-log regression I love interpreting coefficients as elasticities this is a log-log regression fan page

Something something Qing bureaucracy

Some explorative graphs from my WIP thesis on state legislature ideology and Kaya identity components. Ideology seems correlated far more to energy consumption than production

Ideology scores are from Shor (2023) on a left-right axis

climatesky

Hi! May I please be added?

Edge is now unironically my favorite browser and it isn't even close