The event study results from a widely cited PS article...
(They only report static diff-in-diffs)
Everyone who stayed there for fear of losing their followers and having to rebuild their follower base elsewhere is enabling this. This is ESPECIALLY so of journalists driven by Main Character Syndrome more than by any real desire to inform the public. History will not look kindly upon that.
The widespread use of LLMs diminishes creative ideas.
An analysis of over 2000 college essays finds that human-written essays contributed more new ideas than GPT-4 written essays www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Parameter- or prompt-modifications does not mitigate the creativity gap.
And I'm guilty of that too, by the way.
NBER working papers get too much weight in our profession
Just found this intriguing new function by Wadea Abu Dahoud for making a log-scale axis squiggly, mostly to act as a visual cue/speed bump that the axis isn't linear. github.com/wade31985-ar... #rstats #dataviz