Ok. Impoundment. Some links to relevant authorities and commentary, and then thoughts of my own. What Trump is proposing potentially amounts to an upending of the separation of powers, and while that's not *inherently* bad, in this case it's bad. Very bad. 1/ 🧵
I'll shut up after this, but despite some improvement of late, political science continues to have a big issue with the study of right-wing politics. It's still being treated as a pathology by default, which means that there are huge blind spots in the literature.
Here is a remarkable demonstration of how much a pollster's choices affect the results.
@joshclinton took a single poll and depending on the weighting scheme, he could change the Harris-Trump margin by as much as *8 points*.
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Allan Lichtman claims his 13 keys offer definitive predictions on who will win the presidential election.
Lichtman cannot possibly have the data to back up these claims. He is (at least) 11,988 years away from having enough evidence to support his most basic predictions.
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Option 1: split ticket voting is the new hotness after 50 years of decline.
Option 2: A bunch of Dem leaning voters just haven't admitted to pollsters and themselves that they will eventually vote for Biden
Option 3: some weird stuff is going on in surveys these days.
(2/3) Second, applying Rambachan and Roth’s robust confidence set method, we find that few of the remaining studies are robust to very mild violations of the parallel trends assumption, benchmarked against pre-trend estimates. @asheshrambachan@jondr44
1600-person randomised study over two years found having people WFH 2 days a week:
-increased productivity
-reduced quit rates (esp among women, non-managers & long commuters)
-no impact on performance or promotion rates
nature.com/articles/d4158…
Excited to share a review article written with @guido_imbens: “LaLonde (1986) after Nearly Four Decades: Lessons Learned” in which we summarized 5 main advancements in recent years. arxiv.org/abs/2406.00827 1/8
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