Amar Hamoudi

Household & consumer finance, population health, family economics, demography, cognitive human capital, & development.

[Amar Hamoudi @HamoudiAmar]

@JohnHolbein1 yeah it's more like chicken soup for a cold.

[Amar Hamoudi @HamoudiAmar]

@haroldpollack i get it. there ain't no easy way out.

[Amar Hamoudi @HamoudiAmar]

But her friends call her Betty

[edutopia @edutopia]

"In many ways, we've drained the fun and play out of science by making it all about dry facts. We can bring it back through purposeful play, tinkering, and performance," PD coordinator Katy Farber says. 👇
https://t.co/3UWVXGKnEk

[Rebecca Sear @RebeccaSear]

Science is political, because it is done by humans with all their attendant biases. Insisting science is apolitical, and that acknowledging the biases inherent in the status quo *introduces* politics into science, is not helpful, and will only hamper scientific progress 🤷‍♀️

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

This is what happened in Waco thirty years ago:

[Amar Hamoudi @HamoudiAmar]

no but see the whole *point* of academic journals is to force an editor and 2 referees to read papers so that nobody else has to.

[David Neumark @NeumarkEcon]

It gets perpetuated when departments make having one a requirement for tenure. That's a lazy short-cut. At tenure review, read the papers and evaluate them! Especially when editors are entrenched at journals for decades, why should others rely on them as the key arbiters.

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

Harriet Tubman died a hundred and ten years ago today:

[Amar Hamoudi @HamoudiAmar]

@jamesheathers or, for that matter, "sample"

[Nick HK @nickchk]

Ever more convinced over time that Goolsbee is right when he says that the central question (and contribution) of economics is "compared to what?"

[thesecondshelf.bsky.social @secondshelfbks]

Most chillingly clever literary award object!

[Amar Hamoudi @HamoudiAmar]

Why are there 14 teams in the Big 10 and 10 teams in the BigXII?

[Joris Pinkse @PinkseJoris]

Why does a subgaussian distribution have thin tails but a subexponential distribution have thick tails?

[Amar Hamoudi @HamoudiAmar]

@FILWD my collaborators and i produced this documentary of our version 0.1.1 alpha test
https://t.co/isOjAO9qnT

[Amar Hamoudi @HamoudiAmar]

it samples from the multiverse to produce a complete counterfactual distribution

[Enrico Bertini @FILWD]

If you could magically create a smart tool to support your data analysis and/or visualization work, what would this tool do (dream big - no constraints!)

[Amar Hamoudi @HamoudiAmar]

@_alice_evans i did this when i switched coasts for grad school approximately 173 years ago. it was one of the best journeys of my life you're going to have a blast.

[Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager]

where are you guys getting these unhinged screenshots of these whacky bots that impersonate history's greatest monsters? i want to talk to the R.A. Fisher bot