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Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich
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Interested in bounded rationality, trust, discrimination, fair compensation, quantitative methods, dataviz, rstats, open source 1stgen Professor of Economics (2005-2022) now Senior Economist at the Stepstone Group economicscience.net
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set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains. Use of GitHub Copilot also introduced 41% more bugs, according to the study from Uplevel, a company providing insights from coding and collaboration data. Like I've been saying for a while, feeling productive is not the ā€¦ 2/3

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2 categories: 1stā€¦ are profitable enough to pay salaries that more than offset the cost & inconvenience of commuting to work, whether or not they gain extra productivity as a result. 2nd are companies looking for staff reductions & donā€™t care whether the staff they lose are good or bad." ā€¦ 2/3

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problem worse. Empirical research is expensive. ā€¦departments should reward research with practical value when hiring & promoting faculty ā€¦establish funding streams for #economics#EconSky orig ā€¦ 2/3

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Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich
@davdittrich.bsky.social
Interested in bounded rationality, trust, discrimination, fair compensation, quantitative methods, dataviz, rstats, open source 1stgen Professor of Economics (2005-2022) now Senior Economist at the Stepstone Group economicscience.net
148 followers547 following1.8k posts