In middle school, during history class, we had a student teacher who was very insecure, and my class bullied him a bit. During a class where he was being evaluated, I went out of my way to disrupt his teaching and likely played a significant role in him failing the evaluation.
Drop-in replacement for stack overflow, letting ChatGPT modify my RCode to do simple things, rephrasing text and extracting equations from PDFs as Latex code. I also used Stable Diffusion to make some absurd Christmas cards last year.
Oh sure. Here is an early video of the primitive technology guy. This was way way before he reached immortality through genetic engineering in episode 1456.
I also really liked his books. For me as an economist "What money can't buy" and the "The Tyranny of Merit" were especially interesting because I had a moral philosophy background that was quite typical for economists and didn't question my very market-centric ethos.
where true experiments are possible, but I have many colleagues who can’t ethically run true experiments. It’s surveys or nothing for the most part. They have very advanced statistics to account for the lack of control in their research.
There is a whole discipline on causal inference with observational data that is more than a hundred years old (e.g. John Snow doing a diff-in-diff-strategy). Usually, it boils down to not having to control for every detail but to get plausibly exogeneous variation in your treatment either due to a policy only implemented in one group(state), a regulatory threshold, or other "natural experiments". Social scientists typically need to rely on such replacements for true experiments. Having a good survey is only the first step before you even think at how you could potentially get at the effects of interest. Looking at some correlations in a survey is usually only some first descriptive to find interesting patterns. Survey design itself is a whole different problem. There you also have a experiments and try to find how non-response and wrong answers work. For example, there are surveys in scandinavia, the netherlands, france in Germany that can easily be linked to social security (or even individual credit card data in the danish case) to validate answers or directly use high-quality administrative data.
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In middle school, during history class, we had a student teacher who was very insecure, and my class bullied him a bit. During a class where he was being evaluated, I went out of my way to disrupt his teaching and likely played a significant role in him failing the evaluation.