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Amanda Weiss
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Assistant Professor, Cornell Department of Government.
Political methodology, meta-science, American public policy.
www.amandakweiss.com

Opinions my own, reposts not (necessarily) endorsements, etc.
I really like the idea of highlighting that nomenclature distinction. I have been fast-and-loose with those terms (see above!), and I'm convinced that it's a useful distinction.

But either way, I think that it's not just survey experiments that can fall outside the credibility revolution category!
December 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I don't even know if I like that example of why we have to think carefully about what question a given experiment answers. It's exceedingly not-cute... But it always seems to get the point across that political scientists often want to test theories and only some experiments can support that goal!
December 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I say often to students: If I were studying back pain, I *could* run a study where I randomly punch people in the back & *would* find evidence that punches cause back pain. But that answers the question "how do I cause more back pain going forward" not "what accounts for most people's back pain."
December 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I would be grateful for school-level scaling of LLM management, if only to signal to students that they have to think about LLMs and respect different class policies. During my new faculty orientation, all the incoming APs could talk about was handling LLM use - but we're all on our own with it.
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
In general, I spent a lot of time at the start of the semester expectation-setting and discussing with the students why our particular course would not allow LLMs, and I've been pretty happy with how it's going.
November 21, 2025 at 4:36 AM
This my approach for my undergraduate writing seminar - which is part of a Cornell series of classes explicitly supposed to teach students how to write. But it's definitely labor-intensive!
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
It's not like there won't be solutions. But it's a real interruption in the production of scientific knowledge.
November 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Oh dear, do excuse my rounding. It's actually 83% of the course.
November 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
There are variations on the general theme.

"These pre-trends suggest that we have a time-varying confounder."

"That there is a discontinuity in the conditional expectation function of our potential outcomes under treatment."

"See that curve? No more linear functional form assumptions for us."
November 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
To be clear, I don't think they even realize the kitten has two homophonous names. We don't have a family group chat, so my sister and I text with each parent but our parents rarely text each other.
October 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
For a lot of people, intellectual labor *is* the troublesome labor.
October 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM