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

HUheatherurry.bsky.socialSep 29, 2024 1:49pm

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....

Selective attention in hypothesis-driven data analysis

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/...

GitHub - HeatherUrry/pixelize: Create xy data based on black and white square png files

Create xy data based on black and white square png files - HeatherUrry/pixelize

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.

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PHp-hunermund.comSep 20, 2024 1:41pm

🚨We are thrilled to announce a special live recording of the Causal Bandits Podcast at #CDSM24! This year, Alex Molak will be joined by Ciarán M. Gilligan-Lee, Head of the Causal Inference Research Lab at Spotify, for an insightful discussion on the latest developments in causal AI.

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 🧵

Can anyone recommend resources on using Git specifically for academic research papers/projects? Seems like best practices differ from those for developing an app or a project with A LOT of collaborators. Looking for tips on branches, comments, when to commit, etc. #econsky

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