The inimitable Ben Goldacre has ferreted out a useful early example of a discussion of publication bias. Fifty years on and my impression is that things are not greatly improved in some disciplines. Add publication bias to the belief on the part of some editors of sociology journals that their organs are part of the entertainment business and you have the perfect recipe for the reproduction of blah blah.
Economics now = Freudian psychology in the 1950s: More on the incoherence
of “economics exceptionalism”
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What follows is a long response to a comment on someone else’s blog. The
quote is, “Thinking like an economist simply means that you scientifically
approac...
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