> The prior for the incompetence/malice question is usually best set pretty > heavily in > favour of incompetence ...
The following comment on economic research is from a 2010 article in the Atlantic reviewing John Ioannidis' work. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/308269/ "Medical research is not especially plagued with wrongness. Other meta-research experts have confirmed that similar issues distort research in all fields of science, from physics to economics (where the highly regarded economists J. Bradford DeLong and Kevin Lang once showed how a remarkably consistent paucity of strong evidence in published economics studies made it unlikely that any of them were right)." Bill Dunlap Spotfire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf > Of S Ellison > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 9:08 AM > To: Thomas Adams; peter dalgaard > Cc: r-help > Subject: Re: [R] the joy of spreadsheets (off-topic) > > > > > One might wonder if the "Excel error" was indeed THAT or > > perhaps a way to get the desired results, give the other > > issues in their analysis? > > The prior for the incompetence/malice question is usually best set pretty > heavily in > favour of incompetence ... > > S > > > ******************************************************************* > This email and any attachments are confidential. Any use...{{dropped:8}} > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
