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Ben Hanowell
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Lover of event history analysis, causal inference, Bayesian inference, and their intersection. Also a lover of representative democracy. Posts are my own thoughts. This is a personal account. In medio tuttisimus ibis.
"Then let's empirically test implications using a definition of expertise that bears no resemblance to the model's definition of expertise."
June 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
So many pairs of dudes with too much times on their hands during lockdown.
May 18, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Bro I’m just a guy joyfully replying with Big Lebowski GIFs. Calma voce.
May 18, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I’m the guy who always selects “don’t substitute” for everything. So no.
May 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Good bye three years of your life
May 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Doesn’t sarcastic at all homie. Thanks.
May 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I mean it goes deeper really. The event of death is itself just an abstraction from the reality of chaining organ failures and other processes both discrete and continuous that together amalgamate into what we define as death.
May 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Of course also men’s income distribution has been and continues to be shifted to the right.
May 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I know we are s-talking Matt Y and I love to do that, too. But this makes think of something else: Men have a lot more variable outcomes than women on a variety of measures. Income is another one of them. Skewness and kurtosis of income distributions way higher for men than for women.
May 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
That said Eisenhower wasn’t entirely against parades, this is an interpretive paraphrasing by an historian of his beliefs about military parades in the absence of a war or victory. Ike’s inauguration featured a parade and display of weaponry.
May 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Isn’t this just a chart that represents the effect of inflation, which is not a measure of quality of life in ways that are way more salient than GDP not being a measure of quality of life?
May 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Newspapers do this every single day, and those are one of the primary means by which lay people come into contact with aggregate statistics.
May 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM