Home Statistics and Visualization Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science Freakonomics asks, “Why is there so much fraud in academia,” but without addressing one big incentive for fraud, which is that, if you make grabby enough claims, you can get featured in . . . Freakonomics!

Freakonomics asks, “Why is there so much fraud in academia,” but without addressing one big incentive for fraud, which is that, if you make grabby enough claims, you can get featured in . . . Freakonomics!

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2024-09-14

Summary:

There was this Freakonomics podcast, “Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia?” Several people emailed me about it, pointing out the irony that the Freakonomics franchise, which has promoted academic work of such varying quality (some excellent, some dubious, … Continue reading →

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https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/14/freakonomics-asks-why-is-there-so-much-fraud-in-academia-but-without-addressing-one-big-incentive-for-fraud-which-is-that-if-you-make-grabby-enough-claims-you-can-get-features-in-freako/

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economics

Authors:

Andrew

Date tagged:

09/14/2024, 14:27

Date published:

09/14/2024, 09:38