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U.S. grading system: Why discrete grades?

united-states grading asked Sep 19, 2018 at 17:02
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Problem with proof of Conditional expectation as best predictor

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Experiments contradicting the expected utility model

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Shape with area $a$ and shortest average distance between any two points

geometry optimization average asked Mar 16, 2018 at 21:44
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Available code for computing solutions to matching algorithms?

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Contest: earliest written instance of economic thought

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Does any uncountable set contain two disjoint uncountable sets?

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beamer: \nameref calls the name of the section instead of the name of the theorem environment

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Prove Taylor expansion with mean value theorem

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Harmonic mean minimizes sum of squared relative errors

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Seminal papers that later were proven to contain errors
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Fundamental equations in economics
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What's an intuitive way to think about the determinant?
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Free, open-source substitutes for Mendeley?
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How to explain lagrange multipliers to a lay audience?
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Contest: earliest written instance of economic thought
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What is the meaning of the third derivative of a function at a point
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What is the definition of "First Best", "Second Best", etc. in contract theory?
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Has the Nash Equilibrium led to any significant economic discoveries?
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Situations where revelation principle may not hold
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Preference over lotteries without independence axiom
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What does Battigalli really mean by "Players can not choose strategies, they can only choose actions."?
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Good books to learn social choice theory
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What is the economic purpose of increasing the minimum wage?
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Consequences of hyperbolic discounting
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Simple Sketch of Mirrlees 1971
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R in econ departments?
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What are some further readings in Econometrics you recommend?
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Aligning in text (non-math)
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Curvature and the Arrow Pratt Absolute Risk Coefficient
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What kind of economic freeware exists for economics students?
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Papers that use R vs Stata
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Real-life applications of repeated games theory
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Why do stock exchanges not operate at a fixed frequency?
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How to do regression with known correlations among the errors?
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How practically relevant is game theory?
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Policy relevance of the optimal taxation given uncertainty about social welfare specification
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Bayes factor and Posterior odds
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Can the Machina Paradox be solved by expanding the choice set?
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Experiments contradicting the expected utility model
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