NYT spelling bee 🐝 is sometimes a Rauscher test
16.02.2026 17:16
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NYT spelling bee 🐝 is sometimes a Rauscher test
Interacted with Warsh just a bit in 2005-2006 when he was at NEC and I was a lowly staff economist at CEA. How do I put this diplomatically? Let’s just say the careful and informed thinking gap between me and Nobel Prize winner Ben Bernanke (my boss at CEA) felt much smaller.
Please read this from my college xc running coach.
Dimitri, I’m so sorry.
But isn’t also true—based on large-N studies from Denmark etc—that we *can* rule out small effect sizes? (i.e. confidence intervals may include zero but imply small effects even at the high end)
A. Love me some narwhal.
Coasian guilt-tripping (on today’s gravel ride).
Good stuff, article & comments. I always get hung up on the starting logic of the SCC: “maximize the discounted sum of utility across generations.” Hold up. Why are we (maybe) taking from the intergenerational poor to make the rich “richer enough” after discounting? Why not a maximin objective, eg?
I will say, this particular vein of speakers was out of sync with the protest signs in the crowd, which were 99% anti-authoritarian.
They could easily have spun it as a free speech issue: “You may not agree with my stance on X, but no one should be jailed for their political speech.” But no. Disappointing.
And there it is, instantaneously ousted as the most cited environmental economist in my department by a factor of 40x
You quite conspicuously did not say *on the first try* 🤣
Amazing what I can do with a week off
It’s the Most. Wonderful time. Of the year! First fat -bike to work day of the season. @benbushong.com
