Tanner Hicks

Extremely important finding on birth month and ADHD. TL;DR: August birthday (read: enter school younger) associated with 30% increase in ADHD diagnoses relative to September birthday. But only in states with September school cutoff. @AnupamBJena nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NE…

This is a fantastic study with an ingenious design. I was born very close to our cutoff, was youngest in my class, and had a questionable dx of ADHD for years. This is the best explanation I've heard. Props @timothyjlayton @ml_barnett @tannerhicks42 @AnupamBJena @NEJM

Take 2 kids. One born in Aug & the other in Sept. In states with a Sept 1 cutoff for school entry, Aug-born kids are 35% more likely to be diagnosed AND medically treated for ADHD. Our study w/ @timothyjlayton @ml_barnett @tannerhicks42 in @NEJM nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… Thread

New work in @NEJM from @timothyjlayton myself and @AnupamBJena

I've been getting used to gganimate and thought it would be useful to put together some illustrations of what various causal inference methods *actually do to data* and how they work. Here, for example, is what it means to control for a (binary) variable

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The Benefit of Having the Same Name as a Police Officer Great working w/ @CassSunstein @tannerhicks42 on @nytimes piece that used speeding tix data to show that prob of getting a ‘mercy ticket’ increases if u have same name as officer that pulls u over nyti.ms/2naai2z

@sacjai @AnupamBJena @CassSunstein And @tannerhicks42 😉

Important study on name bias and police from the ever-creative @AnupamBJena and @CassSunstein. nytimes.com/2018/08/04/opi…

@HannahLowry2 you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

$30,000: The cost to send a California student to UCLA $75,000: The cost to send someone to prison in California Maybe, just maybe, we should be investing in education rather than locking kids up.

Ahh, the enthusiasm of the recent convert to R. twitter.com/kanyewest/stat…

Today in the Journal of Unsurprising Results twitter.com/NBCNews/status…

Is 'Vas Madness' real? We find a 20-30% increase in vasectomies in a large privately insured population on the Wed & Thurs of March Madness week compared to identical days in surrounding 4 weeks. What better time to recuperate? h/t @andrewolenski @tannerhicks42

So, what's our plan? On Friday, April 20th, the 19th anniversary of the Columbine shooting we propose a National High School walk out. Don't attend school, wear orange and protest. Sign the petition on our page if you pledge to do so. #nationalwalkout #schoolwalkout

70 other students and I are trying to arrange a #NationalStudentWalkout campaign to protest against gun violence in American schools and universities. Can you use your Twitter account help us spread the word? @TucsonStar

Students across the nation should hold a national walk-out of school indefinitely until gun laws are changed. Adults can’t accomplish anything... maybe students can give this a try.

@rlamartini @Doug_Bratman @dwramzimdmph @DrLindaMD jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

One year ago today Hans Rosling died. To remember him I want to share some links in this thread. Of the many talks he gave, ’The magic washing machine’ is my favorite. The quote explains the magic of the machine – laundry in, books out. Here is his talk ted.com/talks/hans_ros…

Rachael raises an important point: There is a lot of peer pressure among academics to make it sound like the worst, longest-hours job in the world. I've seen this again and again and again. That doesn't fit my experience at all. 1/x twitter.com/economeager/st…

It doesn’t have to be this way for many of us. I rarely work more than 40 hrs/wk since grad school (when I worked way more hours). Ask @bradleyvoytek too. Not saying others are inefficient w time. I focus on fewer things bc a main goal is keeping life manageable. (1/n) twitter.com/jayvanbavel/st…