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The WSJ didn't present the paper as peer-reviewed fact. It's also not like Piketty's book was peer-reviewed either...
by argonaut 10y ago
The WSJ didn't present the paper as peer-reviewed fact. It's also not like Piketty's book was peer-reviewed either...
- carlob 10y agoPiketty's book was not peer-reviewed, but as it's often the case in all fields you first publish a bunch of peer-reviewed articles on a subject and then you summarize and clarify stuff putting together a book. So the book itself might not be peer-reviewed, but many of the findings within are
- denzil_correa 10y ago> It's also not like Piketty's book was peer-reviewed either... Curious, what is exactly a peer-reviewed book? Could you give me some examples of one?
- DanBC 10y ago> Curious, what is exactly a peer-reviewed book? Could you give me some examples of one? Here's an article that describes the problems of the lack of fact-checking in books compared to the fact checking that some US newspapers do. http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/09/why-books-still-arent-fact-checked/378789/ http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/09/why... > Readers might think nonfiction books are the most reliable media sources there are. But accuracy scandals haven't reformed an industry that faces no big repercussions for errors.
- denzil_correa 10y agoNo, I absolutely agree and this is one of the reasons I do not read non-fiction books. I was just wondering what a peer-reviewed book is.