Journalists are suckers for anything that looks like science. And selection bias makes it even worse. But I was unfair to NPR.
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2016-05-06
Summary:
Journalists are suckers. Marks. Vics. Boobs. Rubes. You get the picture. Where are the classically street-trained reporters, the descendants of Ring Lardner and Joe Liebling, the hard-bitten journos who would laugh in the face of a press release? Today, nowhere in evidence. I’m speaking, of course, about the reaction in the press to the latest […]
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