where true experiments are possible, but I have many colleagues who can’t ethically run true experiments. It’s surveys or nothing for the most part. They have very advanced statistics to account for the lack of control in their research.

There is a whole discipline on causal inference with observational data that is more than a hundred years old (e.g. John Snow doing a diff-in-diff-strategy). Usually, it boils down to not having to control for every detail but to get plausibly exogeneous variation in your treatment either due to a policy only implemented in one group(state), a regulatory threshold, or other “natural experiments”. Social scientists typically need to rely on such replacements for true experiments. Having a good survey is only the first step before you even think at how you could potentially get at the effects of interest. Looking at some correlations in a survey is usually only some first descriptive to find interesting patterns. Survey design itself is a whole different problem. There you also have a experiments and try to find how non-response and wrong answers work. For example, there are surveys in scandinavia, the netherlands, france in Germany that can easily be linked to social security (or even individual credit card data in the danish case) to validate answers or directly use high-quality administrative data.

It aged so well because the scene and camera work are relatively simple but the writing and acting are absolutely stellar.

I also really liked his books. For me as an economist “What money can’t buy” and the “The Tyranny of Merit” were especially interesting because I had a moral philosophy background that was quite typical for economists and didn’t question my very market-centric ethos.

Many songs. The last one that got stuck in my head was Little Numbers by Boy

Yes, just last year!

Not quite as good as Acting Unit 0.8

Oh sure. Here is an early video of the primitive technology guy. This was way way before he reached immortality through genetic engineering in episode 1456.

Drop-in replacement for stack overflow, letting ChatGPT modify my RCode to do simple things, rephrasing text and extracting equations from PDFs as Latex code. I also used Stable Diffusion to make some absurd Christmas cards last year.

Top of the line in utility sports,

Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!

Canyonero! Canyonero!

Yay, nihilism!