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Some quick thoughts from article with Jishnu Das and Yash Dhuldhoya from the @McCourtSchool
1. American functional illiteracy has raised 10 points per the most recent PIAAC from a decade ago. (18%-28%)
2. This decline is not just American but something across the OECD.
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3. Who's hardest hit, and why we think they were impacted, differs dramatically from country to country.
4. I have spent most of my career working on survey data quality and this story is clearly not the outcome of poor data quality.
what if property taxes in CA depended on how much your home is worth now, instead of when you bought it?
we should replace Prop 13 with a flat 0.7% property tax -- a revenue-neutral reform
for example, this lovely home near the Presidio is currently getting a 90% discount! 1/4
The data out of Oregon really are astonishing.
A phenomenon once observed in about 1 in 20,000 adult men and 1 in 50,000 adult women (DSM-5) is now being diagnosed and medically treated in at least 1 in 250 17-year-old girls in Oregon.
For a while I've wondered why there's no restaurant food in the US meaningfully cheaper than Chipotle, ~$15 a meal. I think I finally understand: America is so rich that there is just no demand for food much cheaper than this
Minor 007 First Light spoilers
The Valhalla Protocol coming for the Tacsim looks 10x better than what we actually got in the game. We should have got something like this in the actual game!
@jbsteinberg what i have seen work best is just submodule for the paper within the actual analysis repo this skips all of the size issues your paper doesn't need to see the raw data then this git repo pushes any edits quick and easy you copy only the final products into the submodule