[R] the joy of spreadsheets (off-topic)

[Albyn Jones]

I once had a discussion with an economist who told me
in almost these exact words:

"I don't care what the data say, the theory is so clear".

albyn

On 2013-04-26 9:30, William Dunlap wrote:
>> The prior for the incompetence/malice question is usually best set 
>> pretty heavily in
>> favour of incompetence ...
>
> The following comment on economic research is from a 2010 article in
> the Atlantic
> reviewing John Ioannidis' work.
> 
> http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/308269/
>
>   "Medical research is not especially plagued with wrongness.
>    Other meta-research experts have confirmed that similar issues
>    distort research in all fields of science, from physics to 
> economics
>    (where the highly regarded economists J. Bradford DeLong and
>    Kevin Lang once showed how a remarkably consistent paucity of
>    strong evidence in published economics studies made it unlikely
>    that any of them were right)."
>
> Bill Dunlap
> Spotfire, TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf
>> Of S Ellison
>> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 9:08 AM
>> To: Thomas Adams; peter dalgaard
>> Cc: r-help
>> Subject: Re: [R] the joy of spreadsheets (off-topic)
>>
>>
>>
>> > One might wonder if the "Excel error" was indeed THAT or
>> > perhaps a way to get the desired results, give the other
>> > issues in their analysis?
>>
>> The prior for the incompetence/malice question is usually best set 
>> pretty heavily in
>> favour of incompetence ...
>>
>> S
>>
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