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Each parameter (declared or hidden) that they inject in their calculation is carefully designed to decrease the inequality. No wonder they obtain a measurement
by wott 11y ago
Each parameter (declared or hidden) that they inject in their calculation is carefully designed to decrease the inequality. No wonder they obtain a measurement with less inequality. Anyway, they did not really need all to go to such great lengths to get this result, since they do really care about it and their conclusion is mostly unrelated to it.
Economists... Economic science... It would be more honest not to disguise oneself under scientific methods, and that should be renamed "economic politics" (and while we are at it, let's rename sociology to "politics" and philosophy to "religion", everything will be clearer).
- ap22213 11y agoThe statement about economics rings true. When I think of science, I think of models that accurately and precisely reflect reality. That is, a tested and validated model should be predictive and consistent. I have no trust for 'sciences' that cannot tell me precisely and accurately what the effect of an action will be. If the author's of the paper could tell me that an implementation of policy X would yield an effect of Y within an error of Z, within a certain timeframe then I'd have at least a small degree of trust. But, even then, they'd have to also specify metrics to track so that an observer could validate that the effect is 'on course'.