I ended up doing some of my own empirics here. See my comment below in response to David.
I am beginning to see what Linch is saying. The actual hard question here is—What is the appropriate counterfactual to EA? EA is more insular compared to what exactly? Bob says compare the state of Econ against the state of EA but is that fair? I wrote some more initial thoughts down in my Github repo along with some R/Python code.
I can’t believe my first instinct was to think about the comparison group. But I got there and better late than never!
Haha thanks! Honestly I think you contributed much more to the discussion than I did! No need to say “I am beginning to see what Linch is saying.” I think you were answering a different question!
I agree about attitudes, I was referring to citations.
I ended up doing some of my own empirics here. See my comment below in response to David.
I am beginning to see what Linch is saying. The actual hard question here is—What is the appropriate counterfactual to EA? EA is more insular compared to what exactly? Bob says compare the state of Econ against the state of EA but is that fair? I wrote some more initial thoughts down in my Github repo along with some R/Python code.
I can’t believe my first instinct was to think about the comparison group. But I got there and better late than never!
Haha thanks! Honestly I think you contributed much more to the discussion than I did! No need to say “I am beginning to see what Linch is saying.” I think you were answering a different question!