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Mauricio Caceres Bravo @mcaceresb.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

My intuition is that if the true rate is 98% then the upper bound for discrimination is 4 percentage points, right? So grand jury discrimination shouldn't be able to explain more than 4pp of the felony conviction gap downstream, or am I missing something?

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Mauricio Caceres Bravo @mcaceresb.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Can you look at media coverage of inflation? Here it would include tariffs.

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Mauricio Caceres Bravo @mcaceresb.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Presumably they misunderstood the middle half to be the "median scores" (the "median half"). My impression is that 25% to 75% is an oft reported range in this context.

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Mauricio Caceres Bravo @mcaceresb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The paper estimates 0.1: Small overall but in line w/elasticity of locals (0.03 to 0.15 from a cursory glance), which is the entire theory they try to test. Not familiar w/lit but also notable all 4 papers study broader income distributions (of narrower populations) than all US millionaires.

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Mauricio Caceres Bravo @mcaceresb.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I would earnestly be quite interested in the evidence you have that's convinced you "unpopular cultural issues" cost Ds the 2024 election. I've my own thoughts on this but I've not done anything like a deep dive.

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Mauricio Caceres Bravo @mcaceresb.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Couldn't we also eliminate the nickel, then?

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Mauricio Caceres Bravo @mcaceresb.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I think even now if you look through headlines for many publications you wouldn't necessarily get the impression that what happened and continues to happen is criminal. Court rulings are also often described as if enforcement was automatic, further obscuring what's actually happening on the ground.

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Mauricio Caceres Bravo @mcaceresb.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The idea is laughable on its face, but even if we grant them their premise, they completely ignore the irreversible suffering they can cause while treating our country like a college project.

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Mauricio Caceres Bravo @mcaceresb.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I had an experience like this in the US for my first "high-skill" job. During the interview it came out that I'd worked a "low-skill" job for two years (I hadn't put it on my resume). My future boss became way more interested, and explicitly said that was key to seal the deal.

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Mauricio Caceres Bravo @mcaceresb.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Yes, the dynamic started with everyone focusing on tariffs while Musk secured control of the Treasury and killed USAID, and has been ramping up since.

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Mauricio Caceres Bravo @mcaceresb.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Well, you need to assume that whatever caused the accident isn't a feature of the place that can make accidents more likely, which needn't be true.

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Mauricio Caceres Bravo @mcaceresb.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I got the font I already use in my shell/text editor (Source Code Pro). Were you already using Fira Mono?

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Mauricio Caceres Bravo @mcaceresb.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

That's interesting. I learned early on that // and /**/ don't work interactively and moved on, but you're right that it could catch someone out. I guess * being a comment in Stata but dereferencing a pointer in mata would be another one?

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Mauricio Caceres Bravo @mcaceresb.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I see. I was thinking about it more, and I've also been caught out by this on occasion, actually, and I've made assumptions based on past experiences with other languages. Ultimately it just comes down to different ways different programs work.

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Mauricio Caceres Bravo @mcaceresb.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Actually, here's one I hadn't thought about, and maybe was a "gotcha." When u hit "run" in Stata's editor it makes a temp file that runs via "do," but when I first started I expected it to run via "include" (bc that's essentially what happens in SAS when u hit run). Had a few mishaps with locals!

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Mauricio Caceres Bravo @mcaceresb.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Oh, you meant "instead of"? I guess I don't usually think of Excel as competing with R/Stata/SAS but as a different program with specific use cases. Tho if I think about it, I did learn regressions in Excel in college.

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Mauricio Caceres Bravo @mcaceresb.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I was just curious what people put forth as examples of "gotchas" in R or Stata. I don't know that I perceive what people may call unintuitive or surprising between them so easily because of the timing of when I learned each program.

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Mauricio Caceres Bravo @mcaceresb.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I thought everyone could benefit from learning spreadsheets. Why is it bad?

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Mauricio Caceres Bravo @mcaceresb.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

When I learned Stata I already knew a few other languages so I don't think I appreciated what was supposed to be easier or harder about it at the start. I'm genuinely curious: What are these gotchas that people talk about with R and Stata?

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Mauricio Caceres Bravo @mcaceresb.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Great thread! Another tip: gcollapse has a -merge- option that basically does multiple gegen calls at once (the original idea was to mimic collapsing multiple variables and merging back the collapsed data, hence the name).

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