Interaction Term

I am the master of interaction terms.

Basically, adding in an interaction term into this regression changes the implications of this model: since the conditional effect of the number of veto points in a country is greater than the conditional effect of the country's electoral system on redistribution, the authors' fascination and focus on electoral systems might be blown out of proportion.  That when you interact these, it shows that maybe the focus should be not on the electoral system so much, but on whether or not that place is presidential/federal/bicameral/etc.

I don't know, I just think it slightly undermines their results and that shit is exciting because it means I may have found something new which is awesome and means that what I'm doing makes some sort of sense and actually does something and that is cool.

I'm a dork, I know.


I'm not quite done with the paper yet, but I'm really tired and might stop for tonight, and just try to finish tomorrow.  I did at least get the marginal effects plot done and the estimated values for the marginal effects all calculated, so all I need to do is interpret the plot, add in a concluding section talking about future research prospects, and then go back to the review section and put that in.  So there is still a decent amount to do until this is finished, but at the same time I do think I should be able to get it done tomorrow.  Which is good, because I'm getting things to grade and my final for American on Tuesday.

Back-to-back assignments.  Kind of sucks, but I should be all done on Thursday I think?  I can't wait.


Also surprise calls are fun and awesome and make me happy!  Whee!


Okay, sleep time.  Please brain, no dreams of the scumbag ex tonight.  Please.  I beg you.