More evidence to say that you really really shouldn’t just believe hype on the internet because it sounds like science and some fancy outlet is doing PR for example.
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science If only Arxiv required researchers to sign at the top rather than the bottom of the page, none of this would’ve happened. Posted on May 19, 2025 9:21 AM by Andrew Given that the paper fooled the reporters at the Wall Street Journal and the commenters at Marginal Revolution, it shouldn’t be such a surprise that perennially-credulous outlets such as Freakonomics and NPR fell for it too. A smooth-looking research article . . . After doing that quick web search, I followed the second link above to read Toner-Rodgers’s article. It was very well-written: it reads like a real econ paper!
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