Via Tyler Cowen’s blog. The focus is on applied microeconomics, but very useful for anyone doing applied quant work in the social sciences:
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/jesse.shapiro/research/applied_micro_slides.pdf
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Rufo: Center-right critics are missing the mark on DEI
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“Since Inauguration Day, the Trump administration has taken decisive action against DEI in universities, threatening to investigate, punish, and withhold funding from higher education institutions that discriminate in the name of diversity. Most conservatives, who correctly see DEI as a threat to colorblind equality, have celebrated these maneuvers. But some center-right intellectuals, who...
The wages of wokeness: interracial relations
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Hmm, I wondered what started around 2014-2015?
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“25% of CA community college applicant are fake, and they’re using AI to get financial aid”College officials suspect most of the fake students are bots and often, they display tell-tale signs. In Sacramento, community colleges started seeing an influx of applications from Russia, China, and India during the start of the pandemic. Around the same time, administrators at Mt. San...
Even Silicon Valley has turned against academia
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Both Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen are very skeptical about the current state of our universities. Pretty eye-opening:
