Whether you think this game handles it well or not (I think it largely does!) there's SO much to unpack in here about mothers! Daughters! Sisters! Adoption! an entire abortion side quest! Women nurturing and women fighting and women fucking shit up! WE DESERVE MORE WRITING ON THIS.

Just base game for now. We’ll expand to frozen throne next.

Agreed 👍🏻

I’m not sure there’s much we can do — fragmentation of social media seems like the norm now

Yeah very top-heavy (and quieter!) here. Shockingly see more folks on LinkedIn now than here.

and if you *are* a ghoul, faking decency is the price of admission into polite society. seethe about it on your own time

Your mileage may vary, but if the instruments are weak as you say, and you correctly specify the estimators (modulus the desk drawer problem, which I don’t view as particularly worse here than other IV settings), then it should reduce the number of implausible claims.

Sure but that’s a concern you could flag with any research design, and if that’s your primary concern there’s other nice papers trying to address that. If anything, our suggestions will tend to be more honest in estimating correct standard errors