Credulity in the service of clickbait

Language Log 2024-10-31

Summary:

Andrew Gelman, "Freakonomics does it again (not in a good way). Jeez, these guys are credulous", Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/28/2024: From the team that brought you “good-looking parents are 36% more likely to have a baby daughter as their first child than a baby son” and “The PDO cool mode has […]

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Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

10/31/2024, 11:36

Date published:

10/31/2024, 09:19