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TFW your causal effects have bounds but also estimation uncertainty.

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This is very true. Still, considering the state of the 'learning sciences', maybe it's ok. But that's because the _other_ thing about higher education is that it's full of people who are good at learning things, so they can and do learn under worse circumstances than everybody else would require.

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An interesting quote. Football is a game only played and followed by foreigners, so those attending matches must have arrived from outside the US. 🤔

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Illuminating the process of producing rigorous science by selecting on the dependent variable

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I thought I was having an orthogonal moment aberration while partially relaxed earlier but I think it was just indigestion.

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Those tedious little personal scenes described at the beginning of each chapter in the popular non-fiction book you're currently reading? Apparently, they're "malcoms".

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Periodic reminder that the Russian military doesn't just fill other peoples' hospitals, it targets them.

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At a policy conference. Yesterday's winning phrase was: "the fabric of that breakpoint is about to crack"

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»Gib uns Keuschheit und Enthaltsamkeit, doch nicht sogleich!«

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Für alle, die lieber nicht regieren wollen, gibt es immer noch Jobs im [ähm] Energiesektor.

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