> Who said anything about social stats? You did. > Dubner went went down the podcaster route. 15 years later, Dubner has reached millions of people [...] I a

> Who said anything about social stats? You did. > Dubner went went down the podcaster route. 15 years later, Dubner has reached millions of people [...] I assume this is measured in terms of subscribers or listen counts. I'm not saying the Freakonomics Stevens have/haven't had quality contributions to the world, I'm not even saying anything w.r.t. average podcast quality vs. average academic paper quality. I'm only saying that people often measure impact along only one dimension.