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A sign of intellect is the ability to change your mind in the face of new facts.
A mark of wisdom is refusing to let the fear of admitting you were wrong stop you from getting it right.
The joy of learning something new eventually exceeds the pain of unlearning something old.
Question for tenure letter writers: What's your approach when the request asks you to state whether the person would get tenure in your dept and the answer is no, but your dept is higher-ranked/has a higher bar than theirs? Just ignore that part of the request? Answer honestly?
I'm excited to announce the release of the zip code Social Connectedness Index!
It captures the rate of Facebook friendships between zip codes.
This data set allows for much more granular uses than before. A 🧵 of examples:
Many papers I see as editor or referee still are not clear about the source of identification. My sense is many authors do not understand what is meant by this and how much it matters in modern empirical work.
To help level the playing field, I will try to explain in this thread