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Ole Hexel
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Post-doc | Department for Digital and Computational Demography | Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
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beautiful
August 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Using misleading y-axes is for losers
Median sales prices for houses sold and average weekly wages in the U.S. from 1965 to 2025, in 2025 dollars. Wages are basically flat and house prices have doubled. Data source: FRED series MSPUS and CES0500000030.
August 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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More Twitter ads: "The German Conservatives" accuse "Leftists" in politics & media to "distort" and "misinterpret" the Wilhelm Gustloff sinking and is looking for eye witnesses to interview. Ends with "Not atonement, not rendering accounts, but finally remembrance and acknowledgment."
January 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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TOM!
January 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Introduction to Constructing Social Theories, p. 13.
Photo of book open at p13: "But I am convinced that the logical forms of explanation and concept construction outlined here have wide applicability. I usually assign students in a theory class the following task: Choose any relation between two or more variables which you are interested in; invent at least three theories, not now known to be false, which might explain these relations; choosing appropriate indicators, derive at least three different empirical consequences from each theory, such that the factual consequences distinguish among the theories. This I take to be the model of social theorizing as a practical scientific activity. A student who has difficulty thinking of at least three sensible explanations for any correlation that he is really interested in should probably choose another profession. My experience with gifted analysts of empirical data suggests that eventually the student ought to be able to produce the three theories and nine derivations within an hour or two."
April 14, 2024 at 9:33 AM