Sophie Litschwartz

PhD candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, my research lives at the intersection of causal inference and educational measurement (she/her)

[Sophie Litschwartz @SLitschwartz]

It looks like I have some time until chat GPT takes over my job

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As seen in my local coffee shop this morning: an illustration of sampling bias

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I’m presenting in a panel with @MashaBertling & @catarm2010 on the ways measurement error influences causal inference methods, come see me talk about using latent variable models in RDD.

[Abt Global @AbtGlobalImpact]

Today at #SREE2022, Abt's @SLitschwartz presents on regression discontinuity inference.

Learn more: https://t.co/zfNfloDqiQ

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@AndrewDeanHo Thanks so much, this is great.

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Does anyone have a good citation for the fact that test-retest reliabilities tend to be lower than internal consistency reliabilities?

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Bright-sided was a major influence on how I think about psychometrics and measurement before I even knew that was what I wanted to study. So much of her writing has changed how I see American society. May her memory be a blessing.

[Ben Ehrenreich @BenEhrenreich]

Sad news. Barbara Ehrenreich, my one and only mother, died on September 1, a few days after her 81st birthday. She was, she made clear, ready to go. She was never much for thoughts and prayers, but you can honor her memory by loving one another, and by fighting like hell.

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@MemeMedianMode Also you should look at the work of @maibennett , she’s in this space and so might have relevant papers

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@MemeMedianMode Are you looking to use machine learning to create the propensity scores?

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As a baby my house was on an anti-abortion kill list for my mom’s activism

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Ha, this is awesome

[Ben Ewen-Campen @BenForWard3]

Legitimately surprising that the Massachusetts State legislature passed a statewide housing production bill (MBTA Communities) that not even Somerville (densest city in New England) is compliant with.

Here’s the presentation we received this week: https://t.co/mHW8p7hsB0

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@reidph This is great thanks, and I might. I’m still drafting the thing I’m writing, so I don’t totally know what I want and I’m still in the read things to clarify my thoughts stage. So I definitely might follow up for more information.

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I’m writing a paper about administrative burdens, what papers do people recommend on the administrative burden of the FAFSA?

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@__apf__ Schmidt’s on solano ave is a little like that

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I was taught to include a site level fixed effect in a multi-site RDD but I can’t trace this back to any specific paper. Does anyone know a good citation for this? I understand why we do it but I could use a citation showing this is what people do.

[Lily An @lily_s_an]

Curious about how to best monitor test data quality in COVID times & beyond? Read our new article in EMIP: https://t.co/7Z1eD5r3Mx with @AndrewDeanHo and Laurie Davis. Here’s an intro 🧵(my first!):

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@311Somerville 115 willow avenue didn’t clear their sidewalks

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The most popular game at my kids preschool is apparently pretending to be on an airplane, and that’s some real 2022 mood right there.

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@MemeMedianMode Lemon curd is surprisingly easy for how fancy it looks and then you can keep a jar in the fridge and spread it on stuff

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@asrabkin @__apf__ What I want to know is if it counts as not meeting on a dating app, if you met back when they were still dating websites

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@slungaardmumma And if you’re interested is cross-site variation by state, I should soon have a blog post out on how to do that