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Via Mark Thoma, authoritative  and thoughtful comment on biases likely present in the production and publication of empirical economic research from Edward Glaeser. The fuss being made of the JHU report on deaths in Iraq and the paper on distribution of results of significance tests in published papers in the paper cited by Thoma make […]

Winterspeak marvels at an Onionesque combination of headlines on the New York Times: “North Korea Explodes Nuclear Weapon, Colorful Bird Discovered in Columbia”. It’s quite likely that the actual source of the bird story is the noble AlertNet, home of the unironic “Choose a crisis” menu.
It may also be responsible for the use of cute […]