
Ryan Briggs
@ryancbriggs
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Raising kids & bread & grant money. Cleaning data & diapers & fish. EA (bed nets not light cone). Social scientist. https://t.co/g8teKfCf91
Toronto, Ontario
Joined March 2007
RT @Afinetheorem: I'm worried about universities. We *have to* be seen as neutral, truth-seeking, unbiased, rigorous; if not, public suppor….
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RT @GarrettPetersen: @CartoonsHateHer @jfischoff Income tax should be spread evenly across family members. A family of five with one $250k….
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This process is also happening in Canada, where the US is clearly pulling ahead. It doesn’t need to be this way of course, and in the recent past it wasn’t this way, but our aversion to competition is increasingly hurting us.
We were in Colorado last week and I was struck by what is now an enormous disparity in wealth between the US and the UK. Spent a couple of nights in a cabin in an RV park - it had pools, slides, mini golf etc, fun for the kids. But the place was packed with RVs worth hundreds
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RT @alexwcohen: We recently did “lookbacks” to see how well 2 recent @GiveWell grants met our initial expectations. 1 went better than exp….
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RT @MishaTeplitskiy: Do higher impact factor journals publish more credible papers? Seems so!. (2/2). paper: https:….
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RT @MishaTeplitskiy: How much misconduct/fraud is there in the academic literature? About 0.2% of papers get retracted, but that's obviousl….
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RT @itaisher: There are other examples where people use a similar trick, eg, everything is political. When you reframe it as a matter of d….
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I used to think this was a deep point, but I now think it’s trivial at best. Markets can be more or less free, and when people say they want “free markets” they’re saying that they want to move markets in a freer (less regulated) direction.
This is your regular reminder that there is no such thing as a free market. Markets are political constructs shaped by formal and informal institutions that embody certain rights and obligations.
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RT @thatMikeBishop: Most social scientists have never reflected on the epistemic virtues of forecasting.
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