Even if a policymaker is sure of the ideal economic policy, he or she can only implement it with the help of some of the other political players. But I’m saying something different, echoing what I wrote a couple days ago. I thought of this the other day after seeing this recent quote from Paul […]The post Economic policy does not occur in a political vacuum appeared first on Statistical…
# A single price monopolist is a monopolist because it is the only supplier of a particular product. The monopolist therefore has the power to choose a price to sell the product at. # Those who have a willingness to pay which is greater than the ...
Business statistician Kaiser Fung just came out with another book, this one full of stories about how organizations use data: 1. Why do law school deans send each other junk mail? 2. Can a new statistic make us less fat? 3. How can sellouts ruin a business? 4. Will personalizing deals save Groupon? 5. Why [...]The post “Numbersense: How to use big data to your advantage” appeared first on Statistical…
Since we’re on the topic of publishers asking me for money . . . The other day I received the following email: Mimi Liljeholm has sent you a message. Please click ‘Reply’ to send a direct response. Dear Prof Gelman, In collaboration with Frontiers in Psychology, we are organizing a Research Topic titled “Causal discovery [...]The post They want me to send them free material and pay for the privilege…
The other day I posted some remarks on Stan Liebowitz’s analysis of coauthorship in economics. Liebowitz followed up with some more thoughts: I [Liebowitz] am not arguing for an increase or decrease in coauthorship, per se. I would prefer an efficient amount of coauthorship, whatever that is, and certainly it will vary by paper and [...]The post Econ coauthorship update appeared first on Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science.
Earlier today I posted a weird email that began with “You are receiving this notice because you have published a paper with the American Journal of Public Health within the last few years” and continued with a sleazy attempt to squeeze $1000 out of me so that an article that I sent them for free [...]The post The weirdest thing about the AJPH story appeared first on Statistical Modeling, Causal…
I received the following bizarre email: Apr 26, 2013 Dear Andrew Gelman You are receiving this notice because you have published a paper with the American Journal of Public Health within the last few years. Currently, content on the Journal is closed access for the first 2 years after publication, and then freely accessible thereafter. [...]The post Huh? appeared first on Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science.
There is some banter on Twitter about a chart that appeared in The Atlantic on "Pixar's Sad Decline--in One Chart". (@thewhyaxis, @jschwabish, @tealtan). Link to article *** It's a bit horrible but not the worst chart ever. The most offensive...
Economist Stan Liebowitz has a longstanding interest in the difficulties of flagging published research errors. Recently he wrote on the related topic of dishonest authorship: While not about direct research fraud, I thought you might be interested in this paper. It discusses the manner in which credit is given for economics articles, and I suspect [...]The post Is there too much coauthorship in economics (and science more generally)? Or too…
Jonathan Robinson writes: I’m a survey researcher who mostly does political work, but I also have a strong interest in economics. I have a question about this graph you commonly see in the economics literature. It is of a concept called the Beveridge Curve [recently in the newspaper here]. It is one of the more [...]The post How to best graph the Beveridge curve, relating the vacancy rate in jobs…
