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apoorva.lal No it's simpler than that. Just stacking regressions with fixed-knot 1D splines.
In this vein, I think often about this Matt Graham paper. When polled, zoning/land-use policies often show substantial portions of the electorate w/out an opinion on these issues. This means that the people who do have opinions don't have strong ones!
m-graham.com/papers/Graham_…
Important new The Lancet article examines mortality among 1.5m people released from prisons in 8 countries from 1980-2018. Death rates peak in the first week of release, driven in large part by alcohol and other drug poisoning (h/t Evan Roberts). thelancet.com/journals/lance…
gojiberries.io Dan Goldstein psycnet.apa.org/record/1979-22… This is a wonderful paper of his on how lack of ability can co-exist with confidence.
gojiberries.io This is one of my favorite papers. I thought at first it was specific but now I realize it's general and part of why we think the world is more predictable than it is
The illusion of predictability: How regression statistics mislead experts
E Soyer, RM Hogarth
Omar Wasow | @[email protected] Nicholas A. Christakis Recent study of protests finds, with one exception, no effect on public opinion and elections.
nber.org/papers/w32342