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George Carlin was a left-leaning comedian with a knack for seeing the bad in everything, including politics. This article addresses a particular well known segment of his where he talks about “the big wealthy business interests” running the country: First let me say: In some sense Carlin is right! That’s why the post is even … Read more
God’s Not Dead 2 is a Christian-themed movie that follows a court case where a teacher is accused of violating the rights of students by discussing Jesus in a classroom. This article uses the movie as a case study in expert bias and signal failure. Signal failure is an emergent Coasian problem which presents when … Read more
Business often have email and in-office communicators. Do Slack and HipChat offer any advantage over such tools? Yes. I think Slack is a bit better but I have used HipChat more. HipChat is part of the Atlassian stack in case you are familiar. The benefits in this article apply both places. Always on like a … Read more
This article notes a technical problem that STATA noobs like myself may run into where it looks like STAT is failing to import certain variables or observations properly. A big thanks to Joshua Ingber who solved this issue for me. This article will solve a particular case of missing observations, not the general case. The … Read more
While conducting an EDA of the ACS PUMS data set, one interesting thing I encountered was the relationship between the undergraduate degree a person received and their rate of self-employment. This article discusses that finding. Two variables regressed include FOD1P and FOD2P which are variables for the “Field of Degree.” I believe the degree referred … Read more
This article describes some preliminary results from an ongoing EDA. Specifically, we look at the 10 states which are significantly associated with the rate of self-employment. Intro I’ve been conducting an EDA as part of an econometrics class in my Ph.D. program and I thought I would blog it. Readers will learn specific techniques in … Read more