After a long road, Lee, Feller, Rabe-Hesketh and I finally got our paper on estimating distributions of cross-site impact heterogeneity accepted at JEBS (arxiv.org/abs/2308.06913)! A celebratory blog post on easy things to do is here: cares-blog.gse.harvard.edu/post/plottin... #empirical_bayes

Plotting distributions of site-level impact estimates (or other collections of noisily estimated things)

Do you ever want to visualize the distribution of effects across sites in a multi-site evaluation (or meta analysis)? For example, consider a multisite trial …

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What does it mean when your kid sends you this cartoon?

The deep irony of posting this here is not lost on me, but I long for the ideal of discourse with attention to nuance rather than absolutism. In short, as a Jew I thank you Senator Schumer: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/u...

lol yeah man, you fucking think?

Colleagues and I (as a project with MDRC wrote (yet another) power calculator, primarily for handling corrections for multiple outcomes. But for generic power stuff it easily plots power curves like this! See more @ cares-blog.gse.harvard.edu/post/intro-p... #power_calculation #Statistics

HGSE is hiring for an "AI in Education" position--worth checking out. apply.interfolio.com/131655. E.g., ethics of AI in ed, or how AI could be used to improve teaching, or using AI to design materials.

It's always nice to be reminded that people are building amazing things and figuring out new ways to live: www.theguardian.com/cities/2023/...

social network taxonomy

What a wonderful story about the creepy world we find ourselves in: www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/m... Having triangulation laid out like that is... sobering.