Kurrs' Digital Tapestry of Words

Well, I still haven't finished with my regressions. I've figured out that one of the reasons my results didn't match up with theirs was not only the PPP thing, but also their funky definition of the continent dummies they used. It wasn't me, it was them. How do you use "America" as a control group anyways? Are we talking the Americas (North and South)? Or are we just comparing everything to the USA? While the last one is appealing for comparative results, isn't it odd to lump Canada, Mexico, Bolivia, Argentian, and New Zealand all in the "Other" Continent dummy? If it did come out significant, what would that even mean? But no matter how I define "Other" I don't get their results. This annoys me rather heavily. I think I won't write about that, unless to be particularly bitchy (uh, yeah, I have no idea what these guys are doing, but I can't recreate it, and when I do things that make sense to me, their results don't come through). Side note, I'm going to try and move onto IV estimation and see if I still get the same results.

Wow, that's nothing but thesis-babble.

Piotr is coming over for dinner, to drop off cat stuff and be our weekly business meeting instead of Saturday morning. This is good, hopefully I will continue to get lots done between now and then.

Written On: Home Computer
Currently Listening: Shakespeare in Hell - Tempest Epilogue (long Hecate version) (song d/l) (website)