There is a Sociologist in our dept who is continually slagging off Economists.
How to I counteract this?
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Posted 7 months ago #
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If you have to ask on the Internets, perhaps you should go sling fries somewhere. I bet you'll ask your advisor for a dissertation topic, too.
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Point out that he is a sociologist and that no one listens to him for a reason. he is full of bullshit.
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If he is raising specific criticisms, you should think about those criticisms and respond to them.
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Ask if he makes more or less than PhD students in your department. In the likely event that he is unsure, help him find this information. Suggest that he enroll.
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Tell him that a regression is no longer a frontier technique, and that there is a problem called "endogeneity" which sociologists seem unable to confront. Explain to him that his life's work is useless crap. Give him a tissue and leave him alone.
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Tell him that a regression is no longer a frontier technique, and that there is a problem called "endogeneity" which sociologists seem unable to confront.
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And macroeconomists, too. Instrument y_t with y_t-1? YES WE CAN!
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^ Oh congratulations, you can critique 20 year old macro! Perhaps you should have enrolled in a school where you learned something published after 1990.
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^Truth hurts, hoss? It's okay, I can use vaseline next time.
Signed: Your friendly neighborhood applied microeconomist, who actually couldn't care less about macro and knows about endogeneity.
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Dude, he is a sociologist.
We may not be that great, but unlike sociologists at least we didn't go full retard.Posted 7 months ago #