#book2read: Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by #SethStephensDavidowitz
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01H17QBA2
#MediaLit #DataScience #BigData #InternetBehavior #Psychology #SocialScience #DigitalAge
I really loved Seth Stephens-Davidowitz's book, "Everybody Lies." I'm now struggling to read his new book, "Don't Trust Your Gut," but am finding book's title SO OFF-PUTTING. Alas.
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Regression Discontinuity, or the Stuyvesant High School Effect
Do elite schools, or prison incarcerations, have an effect on students or prisoners? I'd mentioned this a few months back on HN and finally tracked down the source.
The Stuy High effect is addressed in "The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools",
Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua D. Angrist & Parag A. Pathak (2014) https://economics.mit.edu/files/9518
Upshot: students who came within two answers of the cuttoff (fallling two points above or below the threshold) of Stuy High admissions ... have very similar life outcomess: indistinguishable AP and SAP scores, and indistinguishable admissions rates to prestigious universities.
Other times effects do matter, in another study by Chen & Shapiro on federal inmate prison assignments, showing harsher incarceration translates to higher recidivisim rates.
In Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Everybody Lies
NBN interview: https://newbooksnetwork.com/everybody-lies
My HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29745533
#RegressionDiscontinuity #StuyvesantHigh #Education #BigData #SethStephensDavidowitz #EverybodyLies #Prison #MKiethChen #JesseShapiro
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