“What should you talk about?”

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2014-05-14

Summary:

Tyler Cowen quotes Robin Hanson: If your main reason for talking is to socialize, you’ll want to talk about whatever everyone else is talking about. Like say the missing Malaysia Airlines plane. But if instead your purpose is to gain and spread useful insight, so that we can all understand more about things that matter, […]

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Link:

http://andrewgelman.com/2014/05/11/talk/

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Tags:

sociology

Authors:

Andrew

Date tagged:

05/14/2014, 14:14

Date published:

05/11/2014, 09:53