February 2026

S7E16 Jumping Into Regression Discontinuity Designs

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In this week’s episode, Greg and Patrick discuss the decades-old method of the regression discontinuity design and describe how, when properly applied, this approach can strengthen our causal inferences when using quasi-experimental data. Along the way they also discuss Ravenclaw vs. Gryffindor, playing barefoot darts, gaming the system, I see dead people, Googling age cut-offs, […]

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S7E15 Are College Rankings Useful? Maybe…

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In this In the Wild episode, Greg and Patrick turn their Quantitude loose on college rankings. In particular, they discuss whether these rankings are of use to anyone at all, and what issues we would need to have addressed in order for us to be able to answer that question. Related Episodes S7E11 Should Essays be Used

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S7E14 Sample Size Planning: The Groundhog Day Episode

Uncategorized / 2 minutes of reading

In this week’s episode Greg and Patrick talk, for the third time, about power analysis, drawing on a recent paper by Greg and Yi Feng at UCLA, that reminds us how little we actually know when sample size planning, and then offers a concrete, cautious strategy for planning in the face of that uncertainty. Along

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S7E16 Jumping Into Regression Discontinuity Designs

S7E15 Are College Rankings Useful? Maybe…

S7E14 Sample Size Planning: The Groundhog Day Episode

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