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David H Feldman
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I write about the economics of higher education and international trade.

Love New Mexico & cats.

My books:

https://academic.oup.com/book/7559
https://academic.oup.com/book/5108

Social media posts are my own views and do not reflect my employer. .. more

David John Feldman is a British legal academic, author and former judge. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge, and served as an international judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the Dayton Agreement from 2002 to 2010. He is known for having shaped the development of civil liberties and human rights law in the United Kingdom. .. more

Economics 44%
Psychology 20%
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Here is a slightly revised, and much prettier, version of my new working paper on the impact of walking distance on first year student performance. To our knowledge, this is the first study to measure this effect, which proved significant and surprisingly large.

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2/ resources toward favored projects, favored firms, and favored individuals.

Now perhaps I should go read the article ... πŸ˜‰

Yet.

It's not just economic data. I no longer trust information put out by the CDC, for instance.

I can easily imagine a world where bad information undoes a century of data improvement, creating uncertainties that reduce business investment while giving a corrupt government more power to steer

A court order for the ages. It should be studied by law students a century from now as they evaluate how democracy either collapses or recovers -- we do not yet know which.

Judge Biery speaks plain English. No equivocation. No punches pulled.

Yep, that about sums it up. And this is what conservatives have to say ...

I look forward to seeing them prosecuted and jailed.

This man needs to be prosecuted the moment he leaves office. No self-pardon should be honored. No SCOTUS that indicates it will exempt him from justice should be allowed to stand un-packed.

Yes, of course, which is why I said that people should interpret this result with a bit more caution. Cautious optimism, of course. πŸ˜‰

2/ It's so easy to identify research published in good medical journals that is full of internal and external validity problems -- non-random samples, mere correlations interpreted causally, and so on. More physicians need to be trained in causal inference techniques. Such as:

mixtape.scunning.com
Causal Inference The Mixtape
mixtape.scunning.com

This is a problem with many medical studies of both the RCT and retrospective data sort, not just the clear bull crap from corporations intent on selling their snake oil supplements.

It's good for whatever group of partisans is the most motivated at the time.

This is a great result in Texas, but people should extrapolate with more care.

The turnout (around 90K) was only 1/3 of the normal turnout in general elections in that district. Democratic leaning voters were very motivated this time around. That suggests what Rehmet needs to do before November.
30 point swing you say?

Keep in mind that the turnout in this special election was only 1/3 of the normal turnout for this district. This is a great result, but you should extrapolate with some care.
30 point swing you say?

They will all be fired in January of 2029, I hope. That will be the first step in de-politicizing justice in the US again.
I couldn't help but remember Lanzmann in Shoah interviewing families who took Jewish homes after WWII....
straight up Gestapo shit

Probably the ones worth less than $10m...
straight up Gestapo shit

... and to the ordeal of refereeing.

Would you believe anything Ariely said about this? ...

Do you think an honest DOJ -- one perhaps installed in 2029 by a Democratic administration -- might find in these documents enough information to bring indictments? Indictments that could lead to prison for Musk?

Yes, this is a scream.

And I hope Bezos is prepared to be stripped of most of his billions in 2029 by the next administration.
And the best bribe disguised as a documentary goes to...

Just another hardened criminal, I see...

No, not her.
MINNESOTA β€” Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”

So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it

(H/T longtimehistory)

Just another hardened criminal, I see. No, not her ...

Oh, that's easy. I've been a New England hater at least since ...

I wonder how long before we start seeing our TSA pre-check revoked because someone in DHS, using some web-scraping techniques, creates lists of enemies "of the people?" How long before the IRS, which is supposedly insulated, starts auditing people who say or write anything against our leaders?

Well, Fox "journalists" self-discredited over the past decades so we don't have to wonder about them ....
And the best bribe disguised as a documentary goes to...