Dean Eckles
networks, contagion, causality. professor
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National Republican Party Formally Backs QAnon Supporter
Sam Stein - The Daily Beast 37h 6 tweets
A $5,000 September donation formalizes the GOP’s acceptance of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s candidacy after top officials in the party had signalled hesitancy in backing her.
How big data helped elect President Kennedy during the cold war
New Scientist 25h 1 tweets
Big data's power is revealed by two books covering a cold-war version of Cambridge Analytica that helped John F. Kennedy get elected-and how modern social media can rig votes today
WSJ News Exclusive | Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project Into Political Ad Targeting
WSJ 40h 20 tweets
Facebook is demanding that a New York University research project cease collecting data about its political-ad targeting practices, setting up a fight with academics seeking to study the platform without the company’s permission.
github/dmca
GitHub 42h 7 tweets
Repository with text of DMCA takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. Users identified in the notices are presumed innocent u...
“Trumpcare” Does Not Exist. Nevertheless Facebook and Google Cash In on Misleading Ads for “Garbage” Health Insurance.
Marshall Allen - ProPublica 5d 3 tweets
The thousands of “Trumpcare” ads Facebook and Google have published show that the shadowy “lead generation” economy has a happy home on the platforms — and even big names like UnitedHealthcare take part.
Faculty Openings | MIT Schwarzman College of Computing | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Computing.mit.edu 42h 1 tweets
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Dean Eckles MIT's new College of Computing is undertaking multiple faculty searches this year for both "core" (EECS) and "shared" faculty in , Philosophy, MechE & Learn more about each search 42h
RM C19 – Replication Markets
Replicationmarkets.com 3d 3 tweets
Dean Eckles New round of replication prediction markets — focused on COVID-19 studies — is open for sign-up 43h
Beyond plausibly exogenous
OUP Academic 46h 1 tweets
Summary. We synthesize two recent advances in the literature on instrumental variable (IV) estimation that test and relax the exclusion restriction. Our approa
Dean Eckles Interesting use of subgroups where an instrumental variable has no first-stage effects on the endogenous mediator to try to correct for direct effects Might have benefitted from engagement with work on principal stratification ('complier' does not appear) 46h
Coverage Error Optimal Confidence Intervals for Local Polynomial Regression
arXiv.org 46h 1 tweets
We characterize the minimax bound on coverage error of Wald-type confidence intervals for nonparametric local polynomial regression. This bound depends on the smoothness of the population regression function, the smoothness exploited by the...
Royal Statistical Society Publications
Royal Statistical Society 50h 1 tweets
Research demonstrates that police reduce crime. We study this question by using a natural experiment in which a private university increased the number of police patrols within an arbitrarily defined...
Dean Eckles Many geographic RDDs involve existing borders used for other purposes (administrative boundaries, DMAs determining much TV exposure). One example with a newly introduced boundary: private policing by UPenn, where a patrol zone boundary was created 50h
hunter2
Know Your Meme - Know Your Meme 3d 1 tweets
Hunter2 refers to a password an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) user by the name of AzureDiamond was tricked into giving away. It is often used as a fake password or username, both by various users and in comics or other media.
“What Kind of Oversight Board Have You Given Us?” by Evelyn Douek
The University of Chicago Law Review Online 167d 4 tweets
Facebook’s new Oversight Board is an unprecedented experiment in content moderation governance. But how will it work—and why does it matter?
Causal Inference in the Presence of Interference in Sponsored Search Advertising
arXiv.org 3d 1 tweets
In classical causal inference, inferring cause-effect relations from data relies on the assumption that units are independent and identically distributed. This assumption is violated in settings where units are related through a network of...
Dean Eckles Handling interference / spillovers in ad auctions... uses single world intervention graphs (SWIGs) 3d
Lowell High School will use lottery admission next year, S.F. school board decides
SFChronicle.com 4d 3 tweets
San Francisco’s academically selective Lowell High School will admit students using a random lottery for next year’s freshman class, a decision made by a unanimous school board Tuesday after a divisive community debate.
Dean Eckles A lot of debate about a "temporary" change to admissions at an academically selective public school in SF. But much of the best evidence says that barely getting into one of these schools (or not) has minimal effects on later outcomes. So what gives? 4d
Illegitimate publication
chris hartgerink - Chris Hartgerink 4d 2 tweets
Without my knowledge or approval, an original publication appeared online on Oct 10, 2020 with the title "p-Values Less Than 0.05 in Psychology: What is Going on?"
Dean Eckles Article under CC-BY license republished (with different title) in a Springer outlet with the authors' consent. Setting aside the legal aspects, this seems inconsistent with the moral rights of authors and the norms that scholarly publishers should follow 4d
Right-Wing YouTube: A Supply and Demand Perspective - Kevin Munger, Joseph Phillips, 2020
SAGE Journals 4d 1 tweets
YouTube is the most used social network in the United States and the only major platform that is more popular among right-leaning users. We propose the “Supply ...
American Economic Association
Aeaweb.org 1290d 2 tweets
Dean Eckles I meant to link to this piece , though the article above is clearly also relevant (and more recent) 4d
American Economic Association
Aeaweb.org 1185d 3 tweets
Dean Eckles What's the best current treatment of Tullock's 1972 question: Why is there so little money in US politics? is more recent, but also dated in specifics 4d
Administration officials alarmed by White House push to fast track lucrative 5G spectrum contract, sources say
CNN 5d 30 tweets
Senior officials throughout various departments and agencies of the Trump administration tell CNN they are alarmed at White House pressure to grant what would essentially be a no-bid contract to lease the Department of Defense's mid-band spectrum --...
Dean Eckles Timely that the Econ Nobel honored work on auctions, including spectrum auctions, but highly lucrative spectrum is being rushed to auction — and now perhaps considered for non-competitive sale to a firm with huge COI issues 5d
Robust Inference Using Inverse Probability Weighting
arXiv.org 5d 1 tweets
Inverse Probability Weighting (IPW) is widely used in empirical work in economics and other disciplines. As Gaussian approximations perform poorly in the presence of "small denominators," trimming is routinely employed as a regularization strategy....