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robuston So much of academia is about connections and reputation laundering

Can you point to evidence that the top 5 (to which I would add MIT and Berkeley) get a larger share of citations in economics than in other disciplines?

robuston Social exclusion fuels extremism in young men

> but you can find a half dozen studies showing people who ignore traumatic events have a faster and healthier recovery than those that don't

Could you share an example of such a study?

robuston An opinionated view of the Tidyverse “dialect” of the R language

Thank you for providing this example! I share your experience that rowwise operations seem more difficult to program using the tidyverse than using apply.

robuston An opinionated view of the Tidyverse “dialect” of the R language

Can you provide an example of a problem that requires multiple tidyverse operations, but could be solved equally well using only lapply?