Marco M. Aviña

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Marco M. Aviña

Marco M. Aviña

@marcomavina

PhDing @Harvard_GovDept---I study class/identity in elections & public opinion; diversity, inequality, & exclusion (D.I.E.); and metascience | 🇲🇽🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

Cambridge, MA Katılım Mart 2018
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Marco M. Aviña
Marco M. Aviña@marcomavina·
Excited to share my latest publication, forthcoming in @poqjournal!!! tl;dr: Americans—including Republicans—are swayed by information that undocumented immigrants have a positive economic impact. Quite timely in light of recent developments... @Harvard_GovDept @InequalityHKS
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MQ
MQ@_cocoonic·
academic equivalent of believing the stripper loves you is believing your advisor cares about your dissertation.
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Sam Pratt
Sam Pratt@sampratt99·
Who believes most strongly that words can harm? People who are younger, female, non-White, and politically liberal.
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Emil Kirkegaard
Emil Kirkegaard@KirkegaardEmil·
Who thinks words can be harmful? In other words, who believes in magic words? A new study provided the data, but the presentation was suboptimal. So I did some plots. First, the obvious sex difference:
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Marco M. Aviña
Marco M. Aviña@marcomavina·
Got offended at a white boy getting dry chiles in the Mexican aisle. On my way to the woke deprogramming camp.
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Mason Holland
Mason Holland@MasonH0lland·
@marcomavina The basic threshold in my mind is that research contributes to the literature. The question I ask is how can it be used beyond that?
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Mason Holland
Mason Holland@MasonH0lland·
One question I think is imperative that we as academics ask ourselves, is what can my research be used for?
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Rothmus 🏴@Rothmus·
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Matt McManus@MattPolProf·
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD
Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel·
Beliefs serve at least two broad functions. First, they help us navigate the world. Second, they serve as signals to manipulate others. Philosophers and psychologists have focused on the first function while largely overlooking the second I've always been dissatisified when psychologists endlessly repeat the quote from William James: "Thinking is for doing". Thinking is for a hell of a lot more than doing. #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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Roman Helmet Guy
Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy·
The Harvard History department has a class where undergrads just help fill out asylum applications for illegal aliens:
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Paul Novosad
Paul Novosad@paulnovosad·
Unfortunately we’ve trained a generation of economists that this is research. you use enough jargon “it’s an Arellano bond estimator” and “the Ivy passed the overidentification test, I guess it’s identified!”, you put in 500 robustness checks and convince yourself you’ve learned something about the world when you haven’t. Now that we can write these papers for free, hopefully we’ll stop seeing them.
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Ryan Briggs
Ryan Briggs@ryancbriggs·
We coded our ~100k articles using LLMs. Should you believe them? To answer this, we benchmarked 4 human RAs against 3 LLMs on their ability to recover ground truth article data. Details in the paper and appendices, but the LLMs did well and handily beat the highly trained humans.
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Ryan Briggs
Ryan Briggs@ryancbriggs·
I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.
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Jonatan Pallesen
Jonatan Pallesen@jonatanpallesen·
Interesting study from Gregory Clark. Many studies have shown the result that additional years of school gives large returns. But these studies have significant publication bias, and after correcting for this, the effect is close to 0.
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HEDG (Historical Economics and Development Group)@SDUeconhist

Check out this interesting new article titled: "The Returns to Education: A Meta-Study" by @GregoryClarkUCD & @CAANielsen 🎓 👉Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ky…

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Marco M. Aviña
Marco M. Aviña@marcomavina·
(No other scholar from a prestigious institution would dare challenge Scholar A's work.)
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Marco M. Aviña@marcomavina·
Scholar A is from a prestigious institution so everyone ignores scholar B's work.
Michael Strong@flowidealism

In academic research, when scholar A publishes a finding and scholar B publishes a contradictory finding, they have to figure out why they disagree. Is there a flaw in one methodology? Are they measuring different things? Is there a logical inconsistency somewhere? The search for coherence drives the process. This search for logical consistency and coherence has been the most powerful engine of intellectual progress for thousands of years. Socrates started it. Every serious thinker since then has continued it. The willingness to find and resolve contradictions is what separates real thinking from mere opinion.

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Charles McClean
Charles McClean@cmcclean·
Takaichi's snap election gamble has clearly paid off. Snap elections tend to benefit incumbents — especially when opposition parties are caught off guard and the campaign period is particularly short. I've written about this dynamic before: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…
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Victor Kumar
Victor Kumar@victorckumar·
If you’re an academic and you write party line progressive stuff everyone you regard as credible will treat you with kid gloves and you’ll never know whether your ideas are any good
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