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Hunter📈🌈📊

@StatisticUrban

Data scientist │ MS in CS, stats, biochemistry │ Current Econ MS student │ 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇬🇧 Policy-centered tweets about tech, bio, urbanism, economics, & politics

United Kingdom Katılım Şubat 2020
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Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban·
Everywhere you look, you can see signs of Trumpism dying. He’s a lame duck with -20 approvals and a worsening economy. The groups are very slowly beginning to splinter. I don’t know what comes next, after 2028. Plausibly, it’ll be worse. But Trumpism is ending.
Patrick T. Brown@PTBwrites

“Trump is the problem. The president is the problem,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, the influential president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said in an interview. wsj.com/politics/polic…

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New Left EViews@NewLeftEViews·
@StatisticUrban "There's probably no singular topic that encompasses more explanatory phenomena than economics."
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Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban·
Many of you would understand the world much better if you took 4-5 economics classes, or purchased a textbook and made an honest and rigorous effort to understand it. Many of you appear to think ~0 about incentives, trade-offs, constraints, or second-order effects.
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Zac Hill@zdch·
@StatisticUrban Or tried to play games even remotely competitively for a basically insignificant amount of time.
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Delta Vee@deltaVee42·
I think that is slightly overstated - math, physics, chemistry, and biology have more explanatory power. But I do believe a related claim: economics and how to think rationally about public policies are probably the most important topics that many highly educated people (even professors at top universities) are clueless about.
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Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉
@StatisticUrban @DownwrdMobility While you probably won't find it mentioned in a principles textbook, Georgism is discussed in most undergrad Public Econ textbooks. For example, here is from Gruber's book. Not a ringing endorsement (see last paragraph), but it is also not completely dismissed
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Thornbill9@thornbill9·
@StatisticUrban Economics isn’t a neutral scientific discipline like physics it’s explicitly a political project by elites to control the window of what’s possible and divert resources to plutocrats that has been ongoing since the fall of the new deal coalition
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Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban·
I would genuinely rather live in a mid-sized town in Pennsylvania or something than ever move to the Dallas suburbs. Plausibly I'm much more likely to end up in the Dallas suburbs, because jobs, but still. Would be really, really far down my list of ideal places.
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Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban·
@GayBearRes Also why loss of trust in experts stings so much. Experts are extremely far from perfect. But they might as well be Amartya Sen compared to the slopulists we have now.
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GBR@GayBearRes·
@StatisticUrban I’m not sure people ever really did. What has changed is that we’ve reduced friction to voting over the past 20 years. I’m convinced it was a complete own goal.
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Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban·
@posted989 I agree. In the broader, more literal sense, all the hard sciences encompass more explanatory phenomena. But I meant as applied to human societies and actions. And making the leap from learning about a thing in X setting, abstracting it, and applying it to Y is beyond most.
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Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban·
@Mirs_____ I would simply ask them to overcome their preconceived notions and approach the world rationally. In other words, never gonna happen. But I can ask. Maybe I convince a couple people.
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mir🇵🇸🇺🇦@Mirs_____·
@StatisticUrban i'm not making a statement about the correctness of economists, but about how econ is perceived by other people
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Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban·
@GayBearRes I'm not claiming to be an enlightened polymath, but almost nobody actually thinks about anything.
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GBR@GayBearRes·
@StatisticUrban It’s rare that I sense your frustration like this
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Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban·
@Mirs_____ It's more heterogeneous than that, but in areas with broad consensus... I mean, you should consider rigorously thinking through what that implies. Either nearly every single economist is wrong, which can't be dismissed out of hand but seems unlikely, or...
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Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban·
Even supply and demand is lost on many people.
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Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban·
It's not sufficient on its own to understand the whole picture, but nothing else is really higher yield.
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Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban·
@metoyou99919097 See, this is what I mean. If you understood these ideas, even your critiques would be a lot more useful to yourself and others!
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Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban·
@Mirs_____ is it? I think this is pretty obviously true. I'm not even asking people to endorse their conclusions. just to learn how to think better.
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Carl@HistoryBoomer·
@StatisticUrban You want people to be curious and think. Not gonna happen!
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