Any candidate that runs on proportional representation as a single issue will have my vote locked

I guess my thoughts (to be taken with a grain of salt since I've only read one paper) is that this project could be useful, but only if there were a thorough review process, which would involve a human author making changes. So could save time but would ultimately require trained researchers.

graph of an event study for an AI generated paper

but something weird is going on with this event study for the parallel trends. This is something that would be easily caught by a reviewer but might not be caught by a non-expert who is only interested in the policy implications.

Read a paper (ape.socialcatalystlab.org/papers/apep_...) from Social Catalyst Lab's Project "automate policy evaluation" which seemed like a good grad school paper for a class (e.g., limited data, requires strong assumptions but a step in the right direction for a broader research project)

I can't say much though, as in my whole adult life I've only been legitimately "employed" for like 1 year

Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men? Over the past year, the vast majority of new jobs have gone to women. One economist says to help men find work, we need to embrace ways to "make girly jobs appeal to manly men."

Fellas is it feminine to be employed
www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...

Mattie lubchansky who is normally delightful making a very stupid post about the economy

"experts should simply change their mind if enough people disagree" is quite the stance to become so popular among the innumerate

If this is true, doesn't this indicate that consumer sentiment is in fact "broken"? It implies that people aren't evaluating the economy based on their own economic conditions but on something pretty arbitrary.

If I'm not mistaken, the intuition for the price level explanation is that voters are thinking I'm pessimistic about the economy because the nominal price level is high, but I'm also able to buy more things with my income.

This is what the panicked articles about moltbook sound like to me

Call for Proposals: Data Collection for Replication+Novel Political Science Survey Experiments Alexander Coppock and Mary McGrath January 27, 2026 We invite proposals for a survey experiment replication+novel design competition. Se- lected replication+novel design survey experiments will be conducted on large samples of American respondents, quota sampled to match U.S. Census margins and filtered for quality and attention by the survey sample provider Rep Data (repdata.com). Each proposal consists of two parts: (1) a replication study of an existing, previously published survey experiment, and (2) a novel experimental design on a topic of the authors’ choosing. The replication studies and reanalyses of the existing studies will be combined into a meta-paper to be co-authored by all authors of accepted proposals along with the princi- pal investigators (Coppock and McGrath). As a condition for acceptance, authors commit to sharing the data and producing a write-up of the findings from their novel design for submission to a scholarly journal, and public posting of a working paper pre-publication.

🎺 Call for proposals 🎺

1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment
2️⃣ run a novel experiment

on repdata.com

3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies
4️⃣ publish your study

details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_...
applications open Feb 1

please repost!

GitHub - cran/statuser: :exclamation: This is a read-only mirror of the CRAN R package repository. statuser — Statistical Tools Designed for End Users :exclamation: This is a read-only mirror of the CRAN R package repository. statuser — Statistical Tools Designed for End Users - GitHub - cran/statuser: :exclamation: This is a read-only mirror ...

Big fan of this! FYI, it looks like the link to the github is wrong. It links to John Howell's linkedin page instead of the mirrored cran repository (github.com/cran/statuser)

Come to SICSS Rochester! Applications due April 5 sicss.io/2026/rochest...

Research shows that biking is very, very healthy for people 65+.

Findings after reviewing 28 prior studies:

"Cycling in later life links to improved mobility [and] balance."

"Older cyclists often report psychosocial health, life satisfaction, and well-being improvements."

doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

Commenter 1: Our family took an official tour of Harvard last summer (our son is interested in attending). Our tour guide, an African American student, told us that she is currently in a remedial math class because she 'hates math' and was never really good at it. She was surprised that she had to take at least one math core class to graduate. I'm sorry. To get into Harvard, you should be excellent in all subjects. I was really shocked to see this. Commenter 2: She was excellent in the only category that counts ....

Wall Street Journal comments trying to make this about affirmative action, a thing that has been prohibited in college admissions for almost 30 years in California (Prop 209 passed in 1996)

Business may have picked up in NY tolling area, economic development report says According to the study, despite job and business growth in the city, there are still affordability challenges facing city residents.

Good data alert coming through! NYCEDC reports that business activity in the congestion relief zone is outpacing the rest of NYC: 4.8% foot-traffic growth in the zone vs. 1% citywide.

www.eenews.net/articles/bus...

screenshot of text from the UCSD report that interviewed math tutors: "One of her high school athlete students told her that he was able to pass all of his high school math without attending class because his coach had a special agreement with the teachers."

this anecdote from a tutor is wild

btw, I do think there is a problem with students not being prepared for college! seems like covid school closures really affected many students. but when you start every op-ed with an anecdote about how ucsd students can't add 9+9...I'm going to be skeptical

screenshot of text from the UCSD report that interviewed Math 2 tutors: "This tutor stated that many Math 2 students suffer from dyscalculia and even when they can successfully solve the problems, it takes them an extremely long time to do so."

also looks like the fact that it was timed might have disadvantaged some students with learning disabilities

screenshot of text from the UCSD report: "The test was open response (pencil and paper), non-calculator, and students were given 45 minutes to complete the test. It was completely anonymous (students did not put their name on the test), and the students understood that it was not part of their grade. It was positively framed (data to help their instructors adapt the course to their needs), and donuts were given at the end of the test. There was nearly 100% participation (138 students)."

if you think I'm joking, I promise I'm not

(full report from UCSD here: senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347...)

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