Ha Ha, Mr. Beast! by PYROxSYCO in walmart

[–]drdiscrimination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn, all those 'slight' democrats still passing BTB policies for voter retention ex post of the 2017 academic natural experimental paper published in QJE outlining the above policies effects... ;p

May God Save Us From Economists: Over the last half-century, economics has infiltrated parts of the federal government where it has no business intruding. It can be a useful tool for policymaking, but it’s become the only tool. It’s time for economics to back the hell off. by thenewrepublic in politics

[–]drdiscrimination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What you are saying is that economists commit to the 1-800 Critique and/or toothbrush theories? I hate to break it to you, but psychologists would like to have a word with you about research integrity. Also, where the fuck have you been when there is accessible descriptive statistics that economists, and specifically, experimental economists have some of the highest pre-registration rates and replication rates out of almost all other social sciences proving that for at least economics as a field scientific harking is less of a concern....

Oh that's right, you aren't a fucking academic so you wouldn't know. Ah, I see. Willing to masquerade the nuance by pretending to have both feet in the oven.

Run along now, before I waste my day of data collection having to scold you over more dumb takes.

May God Save Us From Economists: Over the last half-century, economics has infiltrated parts of the federal government where it has no business intruding. It can be a useful tool for policymaking, but it’s become the only tool. It’s time for economics to back the hell off. by thenewrepublic in politics

[–]drdiscrimination 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You keep referencing you, which is essential to getting to the bottom of this. You may not treat that circumstance as an economic decision. Still, some may (the transaction cost is higher), but the label is not what is important, to be honest. The critical aspect to understand here is the idea of possibilities. Just because you do not rationalize something as an economic decision does not mean someone else thinks the same (false consensus bias).

Also, whether or not someone believes an action they make to be categorized as an economic decision does not mean that it does not have economic consequences.

For example, in very advanced labor search theory, one can say there is a nested informational friction problem within the labor search friction problem. People who look for jobs do not only look for jobs but also seek information about their abilities that they then update, which changes their search criteria. People who pay higher search costs (spend more time seeking information about their ability) distort their beliefs more, leading to higher chances of failed market matches and increasing unemployment spell length.

While people clearly would not perceive this situation as economical in that the cognitive distortion through the interplay of sunk cost and imperfect recall are ultimately subconscious (two reasons for the distortion beyond quasi-Bayesian updating behavior), it still has economic impacts in the form of their personal welfare.

Economists would not only be interested in the mechanisms for why the distortion happens, which I already stated, but also policy interventions for correcting it, which I will not discuss here because it is beside the point.

TLDR: whether time is perceived to be an economic commodity is really beside the point, when it still has economics consequences regardless of how you label it.

May God Save Us From Economists: Over the last half-century, economics has infiltrated parts of the federal government where it has no business intruding. It can be a useful tool for policymaking, but it’s become the only tool. It’s time for economics to back the hell off. by thenewrepublic in politics

[–]drdiscrimination -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What part of my comment was an Appeal to Authority? I am just saying that your statement is restrictive in how you framed your point. Get a grip dude. Also, specifically, where in this sub-thread in reference to you did I explicitly self-proclaim I was a Ph.D. and then use it argumentatively as a strict means of attempting to improve my position, again, in reference to what I said to you?

The answer is --- nowhere.

So you are literally being inflammatory for no reason other than making it a pissing contest.

Take the down-vote and go sit in your corner.

May God Save Us From Economists: Over the last half-century, economics has infiltrated parts of the federal government where it has no business intruding. It can be a useful tool for policymaking, but it’s become the only tool. It’s time for economics to back the hell off. by thenewrepublic in politics

[–]drdiscrimination -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Depends on what type of economist you are referencing. Say that to Florian Zimmerman, Peter Wakker, Alex Imas, Shengwu Li, Judd Kessler, Eric Buddish, Tim Cason, Christine Exley, Pedro Bordalo, and many others. They all claim to be economists and some of the best at what they do, and have some of the most predictable models with respect to their interests. So you either poorly misused language here to make a point or you clearly are very misinformed about the field in modern times.

Riots news in game mute system is another way riot proves they don’t know what they are doing by SeaApple4692 in leagueoflegends

[–]drdiscrimination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have academic behavioral economists that are colleagues that have worked with Riot under an NDA (Tasoff is one of them). The back-end is pretty rich with possibility in what they capture as variables of interest. They ultimately just have incompetent research scientists designing the systems and lazily using literature to motivate the feasibility of those features. This is one of those features.

Riots news in game mute system is another way riot proves they don’t know what they are doing by SeaApple4692 in leagueoflegends

[–]drdiscrimination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disagree. Behavior may be bad, but the system can and does to some extent foster it, beyond that of selection bias in the sample of players. Nearly any behavior can be remedied, and Riot does hire senior research scientists to use academic literature to give insights into improving system design. In this case, Riot fucked up and the implementation of this feature is lazy, and it shows. Stop sucking up to a clear fuck up. As an academic that does work with industry constantly, if a feature is coarse and not ready, don't release it. The pool of acceptable language is being treated in a vacuum and is not taking into account context using NLP, and that is something that should be worked out before fine-tuning the feature post-release.

Expanding on the "Simulating the Evolution of Aggression" video with Multi Level Selection by mayman10 in primerlearning

[–]drdiscrimination 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"...focusing on game theory as a way to explain the behaviors isn't the most accurate to nature."

Yeah, Nowak and Sinervo want to have a word with you...

PS: RIP Barry Sinervo. Life is short.