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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 23 May 2019

      eigenrobot Retweeted Edmund Hochreiter

      ooooooooooooooooooof although now you know what economics seminars are like "hey before you get to slide two let me tell you why your identification strategy is fatally flawed ok have fun for the next 45 minutes"https://twitter.com/thymetikon/status/1131702577878503425 …

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      Edmund Hochreiter @thymetikon
      Everyone listen to Naomi Wolf realize on live radio that the historical thesis of the book she's there to promote is based on her misunderstanding a legal term pic.twitter.com/a3tB77g3c1
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    2. Enye Word‏ @EnyeWord 23 May 2019
      Replying to @eigenrobot

      I'm intrigued, do you have any fun specific stories of the sort from economics seminars?

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 23 May 2019
      Replying to @EnyeWord

      Most personally-important seminar I ever attended was for a theory paper where a student presented a super convoluted contracting model Someone asked 5m in "out of curiosity do you have a motivating example?" They did not I decided to go all in on industry at that point

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 23 May 2019
      Replying to @eigenrobot @EnyeWord

      Another good one was an empirical dev econ paper where an adjunct was presenting on social methods for getting (Kashmiri?) women to use good food prep hygiene An anthro prof showed up and sat silently through the whole thing which was weird, it was an easy paper but . . .

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 23 May 2019
      Replying to @eigenrobot @EnyeWord

      the math threshold was probably too high for cultural anthro Anyway she finished presenting and the anthro prof tried to Destroy her with some ideas about cultural preservation and normative values and etc etc Economist stood her ground, "yeah I am willing to say that . . .

      10:22 PM - 23 May 2019
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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 23 May 2019
          Replying to @eigenrobot @EnyeWord

          ". . . not getting typhoid is an objectively good human outcome" I was so proud of her, she was the sweetest and most retiring woman in the department and I was very unhappy that someone tried to ambush her out of all people

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        3. Enye Word‏ @EnyeWord 23 May 2019
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          Ha ha, nice! Thanks for sharing!

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