Leiqiong Wan @leiqiongwan@social.cleverlibre.org
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Econ PhD student, currently reading on health (supply side)
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Joined Oct 2022
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Dear friends,
Hi. Following the recent leadership change of Twitter, I have decided to move my personal/academic account to Fediverse.
If you want to read my posts without a Fedi account, you can simply open in your browser:
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Non-native English scientists need:
- 91% more time to read a paper in English
- 51% more time to write their own paper
- Their papers will be rejected 2.6 times more often by journals
- If accepted, they'll have to revise it 12.5 more times
Can the U.S. See the Truth About China? - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/27/magazine/keyu-jin-interview.html
Obviously we are different species of economists. And different species of Chinese. Looks real bad, two thumbs down.
Yesterday I heard from a previous classmate about the horrible news (olds) that happened in Bonn last year. I am genuinely concerned why the person in question has not been fired since.
Leiqiong Wan
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100 visualizations of the same small dataset: https://100.datavizproject.com/
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In tomorrow's Econ & machine learning reading group, we will finish our discussion of "Prediction, Learning, and Games."
A book w many deep results on adversarial online learning, multi-armed bandits & the connections between learning and games.
The three-essay dissertation as an alternative to the current model : AcademicPhilosophy
https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicPhilosophy/comments/32jpju/the_threeessay_dissertation_as_an_alternative_to/
It is fascinating how many working papers get cited every year while the primary premise of academia that I was told seems to be peer review…
Help, I am in working paper (not available online) hell
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I saw a meme on tumblr earlier that said the best response to “Can you explain this gap in your resume” is “No I signed an NDA”
'Everybody is cheating': Why this teacher has adopted an open ChatGPT policy : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/26/1151499213/chatgpt-ai-education-cheating-classroom-wharton-school
I cannot accept friendship from a prof who does not even respect our professional relationship.
How about Zoom meeting on Saturday? How about no?
The one single word that I am scared the most to see when marking coursework paper: causal
Leiqiong Wan
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This is a super fun tool for sketching out rough priors on things: https://statdist.com/
Leiqiong Wan
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@paulgp Before you run any models... explore the data, visualize it, summarize it, and learn about the context (especially if some of what you are seeing doesn't align with your priors). This may be a no brainier but in grad school it seemed we quite often skipped straight to "here's how you use/estimate this model."
It is a huge fun to listen to people from different fields of economics diss psychology in their own unique ways.
In the past semester, for one rather essay-oriented course, I tried to be a helpful TA by covering as much of those topics as possible, but this is not something that one or a few TAs could possibly solve.
During my undergrad in Japan, there was this one-semester course, I think it was during the first year (of a four-year programme), about how to present, write essays, and cite, as well as semi-compulsory library sessions on reference management systems. I am kinda shocked to find out that a similar writing course is offered here only for the final year students as a dissertation consultation. Way too late.
Still marking research projects for a course, and saw this kinda weakly written paper although which had one striking graph that showed the gender pay gap in UK has been monotonically widening during 2009 - 2018. I will have to double check, but this does not look good.
Leiqiong Wan
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What is the proportion of female economists in various fields or regions? RePEc has the data.
they/them/their
Econ PhD student, currently reading on health (supply side)
Hobbyist website crafter
Joined Oct 2022
