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🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 Assistant Prof @LSEEcon. Development Econ & Econometrics. All views are purely my own as I am immune to propaganda. Bayesian menace and scallywag.

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    Rachael Meager‏ @economeager 15 Dec 2019
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    people say academics are nerds, but when I arrived at MIT I had to explain to a good 40% of my classmates what the "all your base are belong to us" meme was, so frankly it just can't be true

    8:37 PM - 15 Dec 2019
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      2. Martha Gimbel‏ @marthagimbel 15 Dec 2019
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        The fact that we de facto require real analysis but not “all your base” knowledge is the real problem in Econ grad admissions

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      3. Rachael Meager‏ @economeager 15 Dec 2019
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        agreed

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      2. Gabriel Mathy‏ @gabriel_mathy 15 Dec 2019
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        What you say !!

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      3. Rachael Meager‏ @economeager 15 Dec 2019
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        all your base !!

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      2. Yann de Mey‏ @YanndeMey 16 Dec 2019
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        "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this."pic.twitter.com/2EHK4XSDTe

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      3. Rachael Meager‏ @economeager 16 Dec 2019
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        I once handed Van Der Vaart's blue book to a student and said "it's dangerous to go alone! take this."

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      2. Philippe‏ @phil_huot 17 Dec 2019
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        what's that % at LSE? guessing fac is ~1%

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      3. Rachael Meager‏ @economeager 17 Dec 2019
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        it's too painful to even guess

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      2. Liam Bright‏ @lastpositivist 16 Dec 2019
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        We need to shut down MIT until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

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      3. Alejandro Pérez Velilla‏ @perez_velilla 16 Dec 2019
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        Agreed. This is highly irregular behavior.

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