Economist on "Many failed searched ... did they underreach?"
Underreach? Nah, unemployment is preferable to working at one of those places.
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Their first response -> toilet.Second one is a lot more considered however. I have to credit Ken on this point: "Only a few months ago, our findings on slow recoveries from financial crises was...
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RR are flailing in an attempt to slither out of their current predicament. But unfortunately, they have to deal with facts that are now publicly available. Relying on their reputations and verbal...
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We do replication projects in my class, about HALF (not 2%) have coding errors. So far they haven't changed the main results (some have made the original paper better actually) but seriously people,...
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Fvck any statistical analysis. Does everyone actually believe that on average any country taking upon themselves a huge debt for over 20-25 years will not have a problem with its growth rate? This...
View ArticleEconomist on "Many failed searched ... did they underreach?"
Nah, lots of schools overreached though, and are going to have to wait until next year to hire.
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I think everybody is missing the point. The coding error was probably an honest mistake. For me, the most egregious part is the weighting scheme. They don't have an explanation for that and that...
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^ Agree. It's a classic example of how you can manipulate data to prove any point.
View ArticleEconomist on "Rogoff/Reinhart coding error -- ouch!!"
^ Agree. It's a classic example of how you can manipulate data to prove any point.You *can* but science is based on replication. Share the data and code, and let others replicate your work.
View ArticleEconomist on "PhD from VLRM Dept; no job offers; what now?"
Hmm.. maybe this guy: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~adamstev/He's listed as on the market at uiuc, but he has exactly the profile 2 pubs ~75ish. Missing piece of the puzzle is that his PhD was...
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http://www.uh.edu/class/economics/graduate/phd-placements/index.phponly 2 TT placements!!!!!!!!! Dang, glad i aint go to houston
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http://mailer.fsu.edu/~tzuehlke/doctoral/placements.html DANG FSU didnt even post 2011-2012 placement and no 2012-2013 placement. must be FSUFSU placed at some position at Central Missouri, lecturer at...
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Only idiots will go and invalidate the rest of their work which makes substantial contributions. Yes go and check their work but to invalidate it because of this coding mistake is retarded. Also the...
View ArticleEconomist on "Rogoff/Reinhart coding error -- ouch!!"
They compared averages across ad-hoc bins and then they let the world think there was a causal link from debt to growth triggered by a threshold of 90%. Even if the figure had been correct, this whole...
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what was the topic of your doctoral feces?
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