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Mitch's avatar

Excellent work as always. I would like to humbly offer an unsolicited suggestion regarding your posts. I think there is so much content in each one, I feel that it would help your readers and your substack numbers if you posted more frequently with less content in each one.

weedom1's avatar

Yaaa. Easier on our waning attention spans. 😎

EK MtnTime's avatar

I read several Substack’s that are typically two or three times as long as this one was today. I have zero problem with following along because I’m interested in the various subject matters they write about. Be assured, there’s no rule you have to read every article published by a person, I know I don’t if I’m not interested in the topic, but please don’t push your individual needs off on the rest of us who are interested and can keep up.

weedom1's avatar

So serious

🤣

But it is also salient that length and frequency might help with engagement, exposure, and algorithm, and possibly bring more paying subscribers particularly to one who runs an open substack.

If more economists are living in the real world, like Chris Brunet, things might improve. 😎

Patrick Hearse's avatar

Good to see that Texas has been successful in getting the universities under some level of control

Jeff Schroeder's avatar

Why are these articles a dead-end of Karlstack???

Crash Pile's avatar

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln awarded 6 BA degrees in Dance in the most recent reported year, according to Niche's 2025 data. Is that number statistically significant? Will we know the answer before the statistics department disappears? Should we ask the economics department about the costs and revenue associated with 6 dancers? Will the economics department have the computing resources to model a cost benefit analysis? Has another professor already modeled the 6 dancers cost benefit analysis that we could copy and republish the results? Is that model statistically significant?

What game is the Inuit led university changing? Do Inuits need a statistics department? Do Inuits require an audition for their dance program?

So many questions- if only we had a campus in Vermont to answer them.

EK MtnTime's avatar

It never ceases to amaze me how much plagiarism and fraud there is out there today but it’s a seemingly bottomless pit! Thanks for covering this disgraceful saga.

Peter A.H.J.'s avatar

Impressive amount of work 👍

weedom1's avatar

Academia continues the downward spiral. Great coverage.

No surprises from I.U. It’s that way.

Thinking how many scandal-ridden academics will wind up in federal employment.