Ethan Bueno de Mesquita
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Ethan Bueno de Mesquita
@ethanbdm.bsky.social
Studying accountability, national security, electoral accountability, political economy, tech & society, applied game theory @HarrisPolicy
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rude

also, we read the books and thought about them in the old college
February 15, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Obviously the best decade for television (especially if you include afternoon re-run culture).
February 4, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Great for music and Bears' Super Bowls.

Bad for research design.
February 4, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Bonica shows a problem with the primary RD design for later periods, which Hall & Thompson agree with. They conclude we lack statistical power to conclude anything about changes over time. (Note: the second paper in my first post is not an RD paper).

www.andrewbenjaminhall.com/hall_thompso...
www.andrewbenjaminhall.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:50 PM
I think these by Hall et al are the most convincing:
www.andrewbenjaminhall.com/Hall_APSR.pdf

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
www.andrewbenjaminhall.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Just for the record, though, and not defending any of these analyses that belong in the 1980s, the well identified studies we do have suggest that there are positive electoral returns to moderation.
February 4, 2026 at 2:52 AM
I think Kevin is likely referring to a scenario in which you are being chased by your enemies
January 5, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Alternative headline: "Eagles' Arrogance Trumps Bears' Incompetence in Race for Third Seed"
January 5, 2026 at 1:49 AM
You mispelled Ron Guidry
December 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I'm taking credit for you reading fiction in 2025.
November 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
You are living a charmed life.
October 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
My whole mental model of you is broken by the absence of the Wellness reporting from this list.
October 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I mean, I see what you are saying.

But I'll be damned if I'm going to hand it to Adorno.
October 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Why?

If I want to discover that I don't really understand what's going on in my proof, I can just try to write the text explaining the result.

Or did you have in mind that I would try and succeed?
September 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I mean, is it really worse than Automatic for the People?
August 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I would be disappointed if you did...
August 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Suppose, for the sake of argument, that all CS majors were 1st gen and all art history majors were from well-connected families.

Even if CS actually provides better job opportunities,we'd observe CS majors having worse job outcomes, despite the causal effect going the opposite direction.
August 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
That seems likely to be true.

But my point is, you cannot even tell the sign of the effect, let alone its magnitude, from this sort of evidence.
August 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM