Incentives in the shape of cash or extra time off does not reduce absenteeism in a field experiment at a German retailer, research finds—on the contrary, the cash bonus *increased* it by 50%, persistently beyond the experiment: buff.ly/3AYbmfU
I'm in love with this paper... Never heard of it before now
The pixelize project was inspired by "Selective attention in hypothesis-driven data analysis" by Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher, www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1....
When analyzing the results of an experiment, the mental focus on a specific hypothesis might prevent the exploration of other aspects of the data, effectively blinding one to new ideas. To test this n...
I created a github repo for this pixelize project at github.com/HeatherUrry/...
Create xy data based on black and white square png files - HeatherUrry/pixelize
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This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.
Very nice + beautiful and concise description of the differences between PCA, ICA, and SEM. However, I am still sceptical of the idea of having more latent than observed variables. Seems a bit like pulling yourself up from your bootstraps :)
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The program for the NBER Conference on Economics of Transportation in the 21st century looks fantastic: papers on ride-sharing services, public transit, congestion pricing, electric vehicle adoption, ... And, appropriately for a transportation conference, it's on Zoom! t.co/S01UBbHSoA
Another shoe just dropped in the ongoing Dan Ariely scandal: JMR, a top 4 marketing journal, has issued a formal “Expression of Concern” for Mazar, Amir, & Ariely (2008), the infamous Ten Commandments study 🧵