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Sample sizes in most studies are at least in part based on resource constraints, and this should be acknowledged. The next step is to evaluate the informational value, given resource constraints. Will we learn enough? The answer sometimes should be 'no'. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/artic…

A somewhat common (though unsurprising) reaction I have seen to this paper is "oh caste is important for India, not for US." This is partly due to US-centrism in econ academia, and is also intellectually limited. Unlike Western settings, where socioeconomic status often must be

If you have ever tried to read free books from sites like Project Gutenberg, you noticed that they can be uncomfortable to read, due to their layouts, type & occasional errors This project takes those free books and makes them beautiful (and still free). standardebooks.org

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins Students complaining about something or other is not the big deal people make it out to be. I sometimes worry that some people bend over backwards to avoid hearing a student complain about something. Complaining is actually an important part of democratic culture. It's not bad in

The Journal of Consumer Research announces Registered Reports and Brief Commentaries. consumerresearcher.com/more-options-f… Both formats can play an important role in a much needed increase in the quality of scientific research at this journal.

Utterly astounding to me that it's possible to publish a paper in PNAS that shows a correlation between having a "hit paper" as a postdoc and later academic success -- and then interprets this as a signal about the impact of quality postdoc experience without even nodding to the

It’s not even obvious that anyone wanted to cut PEPFAR. It’s just that “cut all aid” sounded good to a certain type. But Marco Rubio can fix this. I don’t know enough about American politics to know where leverage is here, but so much is at stake in keeping PEPFAR funds flowing.

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6. Light blue is a map as we know it and dark blue is the actual size of each country

Joined in on the first qualitative interview Sajedeh Rasti is doing for her PhD, interviewing scientists involved in large scale coordinated projects. Incredibly interesting. Qualitative research and talking to scientists in other disciplines is providing a wealth of information

Every econ referee report should include two scores out of 100: (1) Accuracy; (2) Importance. These scores should be public and should follow the papers. This would have all kinds of benefits: 1. It would reduce the incentive to submit to all 5 top five journals 🧵 1/n

Happy Friday everyone! I just posted what I think is an important blog post on my website. It is a critique of meta-meta-analyses: meta-analyses of meta-analyses.

Yonas Bekele is a public high school student in Ethiopia, admitted to the United World Colleges with a 90% scholarship. But the 10% left (+ registration deposit) comes out to roughly 85k RMB (roughly $12k USD). Yonas is a total stranger who emailed me, and I usually ignore such

New study alert! We're excited to share our "Bestiary of Questionable Research Practices in Psychology" in #AMPPS. We tackle the credibility crisis in research by defining, collecting, and categorizing QRPs using a community consensus method. 🧵#OpenScience #QRPs

Now Max Primbs talking about his super exciting Many-Dags project, asking experts in his field of implicit researchers to draw DAGs about a theory in his field.

Nicholas Fabiano, MD This template letter is extremely useful in such an eventuality.

🧵Poll Thread (1-7) on first/corresponding authorship in science. Try to answer all poll questions. Retweet 🔁for broader reach. Disclaimer: this post and even GScholarLens (as of now) are only for those fields where authorship positions matter. After GScholarLens's Nature

For all its flaws, Wikipedia is the crowning achievement of the human web An AI-assisted fork of Wikipedia could be interesting, but only if it embraced transparency, had access to scholarly work & if the AI was used to help humans in making information better, not override them

Exciting new addition to the AsPredicted and ResearchBox research infrastructure toolbox: AsCollected ascollected.org A platform to document results provenance - where did data come from, who collected it, and who cleaned and analyzed it. So important!