Best of Twitter - Week of November 23, 2020
Austen Allred is Consistently Deceptive
Well done, if depressing, review of Lambda School data from their outcomes report. And exaggerated claims. eg
applieddivinitystudies.com/lambda-lies/
[1/N] 📕✏️New paper! How well do people know their social position relative to others in society? How does their social position shape their views on fairness? Does their income history shape views? With @okoctk & @KBHvidberg Paper here: scholar.harvard.edu/files/stantche…
Summary thread ⬇️
How we got to mRNA vaccines (and what it was like to work on the idea in the 90s):
statnews.com/2020/11/10/the…
Just put up a research note on using weather as an instrumental variable.
tldr: all IV weather papers represent exclusion restriction violations for all other IV weather papers. I find 137 possible exclusion restriction violations
The theory of continental drift was proposed in 1912, plate tectonics was controversial up until the *early 1960s* (!!)
Feels surprisingly recent for something so "basic". What are some other examples of counterintuitively recent discoveries?
Narrator whispers: "*Mood affiliation*!"
Alec Stapp @AlecStapp
RIP Tony Hsieh
“Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself).”
The New York Times, 1903: "Man won't fly for a million years – to build a flying machine would require the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanics for 1-10 million years."
The Wright Brothers made their first powered flight 9 days later. Never let anyone tell you it can't be done.