I mean "just talk to it" literally! I start every day with a rambling conversation to Claude about what's on my mind: random ideas that span the gamut from "figure out how to run a new robustness check" to "can't forget to pick up milk later," and it makes sense of all of it

Findings aside, it is weird how journalists switch back and forth between percentage points and percentages in the same article

This is true and an important note. But it's not just tuition. Yes they provide (generous) financial aid, but it can still be a very weird, lonely, and isolating experience to be in a school where the median student is >90 percentile family income

In sum: liberal arts colleges really do offer amazing teaching and opportunity. But the fact that these schools admit more students from the 10% of the income distribution than from the remaining 90% cannot be absent from the conversation.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

To be clear, I loved Midd. But one of my most abiding memories was someone who wrote an editor to the school newspaper during their senior year asking the career center to stop reminding him to attend job fairs because it was distracting from his enjoyment of his education.

But this exists alongside immense privilege. It's no accident that these places skew so wealthy. The community college transfer and first gen students I taught at UCB often to had to balance school with working, supporting family, and finding a well-paid job to pay back loans.

Thanks for sharing. I loved my experience at Middlebury. But after having been a TA at a very different but no less elite school (UC Berkeley), I have mixed feelings. SLACs provided me with a relaxed way to really explore new ideas, courses, etc. A true liberal arts education.

Which model(s) and setup are you using? I don't think most out-of-the-box chatbots are going to do a great job with this sort of task (context window is too small)

Yeah. Although I think if we go down the road of portable reviews, we should just make reviews public and get rid of journals altogether. We already effectively delegate quality metrics to Google Scholar citations, we could change to formal endorsements (maybe Elo-weighted somehow)

I don't think submission fees alone could ever be set high enough to actually manage flow. I think it would be worth some sort of cap, e.g., everyone gets e.g., 2 attempts per year, if your paper gets an R&R you get it back, if not you lose your slot

FWIW, QuestionPro does everything Qualtrics does at lower prices (for now), e.g. you can directly import QSF files.

Also assumes real voters have meaningful ideological ideal points

Matching on pre-treatment outcomes, not covariates? It does sort of seem like we are seeing an re-convergence between synthetic control and PSM

Thanks! We are really looking forward to seeing how scholars across disciplines find interesting uses for our data

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In addition to company-level estimates, we use these data to explore other related research topics, such as:
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