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I do no longer use Twitter. As of today, I am no longer checking my Twitter feeds and I will not read or reply to any notifications or DMs. I miss Twitter, but it is not a Twitter I can visit – even if I wanted. Twitter is simply not the same as it used […]

Natural experiments are experiments that take place in the ‘real’ world (i.e., in ‘nature’) without any randomisation managed by the researcher. In contrast to a ‘normal’ experiment where only the involved researchers are aware of the experiment and the data collection, natural experiments are often available to all researchers with access to the relevant data. […]

751. People do not, on average, have an aversion towards randomized experiments in policy making (Mazar et al. 2023) 752. If there is a maximum limit to the human lifespan, we are not yet approaching it (McCarthy and Wang 2023) 753. Politicians consistently overestimate how conservative voters are (Pilet et al. 2023) 754. Loyal employees […]

Here is a list of issues, challenges, and problems with nudging. It is by no means an exhaustive list, nor am I sure whether I agree with all arguments presented below. I try to make as strong a case against nudging as I can, but this is not the same as my case is strong, […]

1862. Data Vis Dispatch: June 6, June 13, June 20, June 27 1863. Learning Julia with #TidyTuesday and Tidier.jl 1864. Introduction to Data Visualization for the Web 1865. How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap 1866. Simulating confounders, colliders and mediators 1867. Static and Dynamic Web Scraping with R 1868. Using […]