Think about what Iโm doing. I am copying and pasting studies that the taxpayer has funded - with a little commentary. Then look at the vitriol. Itโs not normal.
— Charlotte Gill (@CharlotteCGill) March 27, 2024
Twitter academics say these studies are *actually* brilliant. But are also apoplectic that theyโve been shared.
https://twitter.com/CharlotteCGill/status/1773012132356878836
https://twitter.com/CharlotteCGill/status/1772974254998323372
https://twitter.com/CharlotteCGill/status/1773016275775525172
https://twitter.com/CharlotteCGill/status/1773011217797271963
https://twitter.com/CharlotteCGill/status/1772999912537383344
https://twitter.com/CharlotteCGill/status/1772961478678589694
https://twitter.com/CharlotteCGill/status/1772917017055482299
"Academic" leeches respond:
https://twitter.com/greg_jenner/status/1772579856439452068
https://twitter.com/DrMabel_Winter/status/1772662746535887269
https://twitter.com/rosa_v_campbell/status/1772728325296771509
https://twitter.com/drrachelbroady/status/1772989436302700630
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Sorry but the last post actually has value. Econometric forecast is done on a long term basis and those sets of data when categorized by the academics into usable data is really good.
Other than that all the papers mentioned are trash.
Pareto efficiency holds true
Edit: Before the Edit, the last one was the grain trade paper
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Finance bros be like "econometric forecasting is a real science"
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We're too busy making money to care about what the unwashed masses think.
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The existence of high frequency trading and well paying jobs in that field almost makes me almost go communist out of spite. They are clearly providing no value to society at all. I can't fathom how people cry about bitcoins when we will waste some of our brightests minds on shit like this
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It improves liquidity and market efficiency thereby improving the allocation of resources.
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Sneed.
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Just one more variable bro just one more weight
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That's literally the design philosophy behind chatGPT.
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Because it is?
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Concepts dreamed up by the utterly deranged
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Sure it is honey, see, I put your last paper right on the fridge! Good job!
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Mock what you don't understand
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It's fake but someone's gonna make a prediction
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The morale for healthcare workers is probably r-slurred but its a real problem. However, all these end up pushing is a new mission statement about how great it is to work for a company that will steal every second of your time possible.
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Notice how that one only got 82k, while Pregnant Men got 500k
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Gay porn got almost a million lmao
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Honestly?
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But it's about 'moral' harm, as in presumably the healthcare workers having to do things for their job against their personal, nonreligious beliefs. Covid is mentioned, so I'm wondering if it's about them being upset about having to treat the unvaccinated, things like that.
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WE'RE A FAMILY
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What's that got to do with Bin Ladens brigades in West Belfast?
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Homesick for a place I'm not sure even exists
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Yeah that one is gigabased.
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Yeah complaining about relevant economic studies is a bit silly. Especially when those century old economic conditions can still appear today (times of war or remote parts of Asia, or just normal life in Africa).
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Is it an economic study though? It's from the history department.
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Depends on how well designed it was. Economics, history, and economic history are overlapping subjects. If they're using 800 year old order forms to track grain output and flow, it's economics to me.
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When have economists ever correctly predicted anything?
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Happens literally all the time. The only thing is governments trying to unmake reality with their own versions of truth. Every economics catastrophe has happened either because the government took stupid decisions (Zimbabwe, Argentina etc) or a public frenzy where everyone wanted to gamble, which, again, the governments are afraid of shutting down (even after getting warned by economists) until it's too late because they are afraid of being perceived as negative nellys.
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Why aren't economists super rich from playing the stock market then?
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Economists can see and chalk out the pattern of investment, credit and money supply in the economy
They can't predict which way Apple is going to go. Even you and I can see when too much froth in the market is making speculations go wild. It would be very true if we predicted the market can't hold this and will go down in 1-2 years.
But you can't short 1,000,000 with a margin of 500,000 because you can't sustain those margin calls when market sentiments still remain high for another 6 months
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Plenty of them are. Look at Jim Simons or even your average prop trading shop (though it's mostly physicists and mathematicians instead of economists, but the ideas are very similar).
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I need to know some stock tips, got any insider info to trade?
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Nah, we don't need insider info to make money. Also we don't trade stuff that's accessible to normies, or at least not normies which aren't able to deliver 2,000,000 bushels of soft red wheat by next Friday if called upon.
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Cmon bud I need something to make my investments arrow go to the moooon
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Bed bath and beyond
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Invest in a portfolio of mutual funds that are predominantly made of stocks. Buy, hold, and have balls of steel.
No, I won't tell you what my preferred MFs are.
Furry rights are human rights
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Too many other people doing the same thing or trying to make money guessing what people are going to be betting people are going to be doing
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!nooticers, real econtalk.
What's missing is government paying economists too provide ad hoc justifications for monetary and fiscal policies.
Furry rights are human rights
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'Uhhh yeah bro its gonna go up. Yeah uhhhh maybe it will go down too. But it will go up at some point again. Probably.'
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I see you are mentally disabled. Nice talking to you.
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Even if I am I am still above the smartest economist. Cope and seethe.
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Sure.
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Outwitted
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omg hi
@Ubie!!! okay so this is like super awkward omg but basically i had to remove ur comment bc u didnt say
furry rights are human rightslol. don't worry though, we like wont let you post anything that like doesnt havefurry rights are human rightsin it. anyways im like just a robot ๐ฒ but if u want to talk 2 somebody you should do it here lolJump in the discussion.
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I was gonna
say that's the only one that I would 
actually 
read. Neighbors were getting killed 
in the New World 
so people back home could have some tasty 
spices 
With that in mind, I'm sure the agricultural trade and politics 
surrounding it were absolutely brutal 
back then
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I agree, it's the most 'useful'-sounding one, and I presume the cost she mentions isn't just for that one study. But if it is, nearly ยฃ900k for it sounds ludicrous.
Oh, it is for just that one study. Then yes, I get that it seems far too expensive.
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Agreed. The grain trade stuff is actually useful (assuming the paper is good).
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Even the first one has value. Cuteness isn't just a human experience, plenty of mammals are evolutionarily adapted to be cute so their parents don't abandon them.
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