All the things we have to do that we don’t really need to do: The social cost of junk science

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2017-06-22

Summary:

I’ve been thinking a lot about junk science lately. Some people have said it’s counterproductive or rude of me to keep talking about the same few examples (actually I think we have about 15 or so examples that come up again and again), so let me just speak generically about the sort of scientific claim […]

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http://andrewgelman.com/2017/05/28/things-dont-really-need-social-cost-junk-science/

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Andrew

Date tagged:

06/22/2017, 18:23

Date published:

05/28/2017, 09:15