I should point out that I've also "dunked" on people on the left, like @NickHanauer, for equally bad attempts to argue that the #minimumwage doesn't reduce employment.
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I think Nick has done a great job of publicizing the fact that minimum wage isn't nearly as harmful as many people think! :-)
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If that is your idea of a brutal dunking, we now assume you are only allowed to play with a Nerf basketball.
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It's only brutal to nerds who know what it means ;-)
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Maybe economist needs to speak everyday English on Twitter
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The reason I follow
@Noahpinion is for exposure to new words and concepts and because my kid is taking economics at Uni. This is why Twitter is good.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Maybe economists should learn to speak using words people understand.
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I couldn't make it past the irony of an economist complaining about counterfactuals.
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Estimating counterfactuals is basically all Econometrics is.
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Valid point, but I'd put this down to human cognitive hardware over Twitter software. We've been failing prey to this for ages. Remember the politician who charged his opponent with being a "homo sapiens?"pic.twitter.com/j50oIv9tXV
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Exactly. One of the messages has a clear, triumphant tone. The other is a rhetorical question phrases in econ language. In a debate, the cheering would be distributed the same way.
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Also the problem that even if you know what 'counterfactuals' are as a concept, you don't know what is meant by it in this context. The whole 'brutal dunking' thru brevity can backlash if people don't follow what you mean.
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s/Twitter/discourse in the U.S./
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"counterfactual" is far to obscure of a term. we should promote its use as often as possible!
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Maybe it's why many other things are bad, including our education system that leaves people less than curious about terms they don't understand. Also, responsibility is on the economist to know the audience.
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Do you even need to talk about counterfactuals here? It’s still early days on the tarrifs. Could they even possibly be affecting unemployment numbers yet?
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What if one of the dunk RTs is a quote tweet that expands on the dunk and that quote tweet gets 100s of RTs? Maybe that’s unlikely, but it’s hard to understand the impact of a tweet from the basic stats they provide us with. I agree that stupid spreads faster than smart, though.
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Twitter has improved their UI but it’s far from reaching its potential. There seems to be no easy way to see all of the quote tweets of a given tweet. Also, here’s an idea: when a user is writing a reply, provide a toggle to also tweet the reply as a quote tweet.
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I love my current job and don’t really want to leave it, but sometimes I wish I was a product manager at
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