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

[William Dunlap]

> 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


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> > 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?
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> The prior for the incompetence/malice question is usually best set pretty heavily in
> favour of incompetence ...
> 
> S
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