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I am currently going through all posts on Marginal Revolution. It is one of the most popular economics blogs and home to a lot of great content. For example, in a series of posts over the years, Tyler Cowen listed his favourite things related to different locations in the world. As I always appreciate good […]

651. Words for negative concepts mutate more than words for positive concepts across Indo-European languages (Jackson et al. 2022) 652. Renters are starkly underrepresented at all levels of government in the United States (Einstein et al. 2022) 653. The term jaywalking was defined in a larger struggle to redraw the boundary between street use and […]

There is an increasing focus on interpreting the practical significance of effects in the social sciences (Bernardi et al. 2017; Gross 2015). A p-value is rarely, if ever, sufficient to examine the validity of a hypothesis of interest. While a large sample can ensure sufficient statistical power, it will also, all else equal, increase the […]

Last year I wrote a post with a list of the books I read in 2021. I decided to do a 2022 edition. 3-D digte by Dan Turèll I Never Knew That About London by Christopher Winn Storby Blues by Dan Turèll Will by Will Smith Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open […]

In the book Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson describes his fascination with the London Underground map: “What a piece of perfection it is, created in 1931 by a forgotten hero named Harry Beck, an out-of-work draughtsman who realized that when you are underground it doesn’t matter where you are. Beck saw – and […]