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Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: Productivity at elite universities
We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been affiliated with the top 25 universities in the last three decades. We find that there was a positive effect of being affiliated with an elite [...]

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Have to have a closer look at it sometime (freshen up those statistic lessons ;-))
Simpsons paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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This is quite interesting, though not astounding.
So it seems that everybody, especially in academia, is overworked. There is a simple solution in the dao de jing, which is also given in the Bhagavad Gita, by the way: Do what you heed important, but do not strive for the fruits of your work.
In other words: don’t [...]

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