Partisan Statistic Alert

Posted: July 10, 2012 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Obama, Statistics, Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

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Partisan Statistic Alert

What has happened to public employment?

Posted: July 10, 2012 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Statistics, Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

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What has happened to public employment?

The Trouble with Economic Statistics

Posted: January 25, 2011 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Methodology, Statistics, Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

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The Trouble with Economic Statistics

Stephen Levitt on Economic Methodology

Posted: December 6, 2010 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Econometrics, Methodology, Statistics | Leave a comment »

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/better-late-than-never-the-explanation-for-a-puzzling-pattern-in-gas-prices/

“…it points out the dangers of a discipline like economics in which there are “many degrees of freedom,” i.e. where there are lots of different possible explanations floating around. Usually that means that an economist can come up with some rationale to explain just about any outcome imaginable. Often it won’t be the right explanation, but absent some way to disprove it, many people can be convinced it is the truth.”