Pretty scary...


On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Albyn Jones <jones@reed.edu> wrote:

> 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/<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
>>
>>
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>>> Of S Ellison
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>>> 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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