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The headline was making an appeal to authority ("Johns Hopkins published a study..."). I was responding to that. Johns Hopkins didn't publish a study, a Johns H
by roywiggins 6y ago
The headline was making an appeal to authority ("Johns Hopkins published a study..."). I was responding to that. Johns Hopkins didn't publish a study, a Johns Hopkins student newspaper published some slides.
It's not an ad hominem to try to deflate an appeal to authority by pointing out that the authority is not all it's cracked up to be, and that the extent of the supposed study is some charts.
- evanelias 6y agoJust to add to this, it was the general-purpose undergraduate newspaper (the News-Letter), posting an interview with the author of this "study". The News-Letter is not a scientific or economic journal, and the staff don't validate or endorse the academic accuracy of this type of content. Additionally, the Applied Economics master’s degree program is an adult extension program located on a satellite campus. Its student admission requirements [1] are substantially less rigorous than a traditional master's program at one of JHU's main schools. I agree the headline here is completely misleading, as it attempts to tie the content to other schools/divisions of JHU that have a much more solid academic reputation. [1] https://advanced.jhu.edu/academics/graduate/ms-applied-economics/admission-application-requirements/ https://advanced.jhu.edu/academics/graduate/ms-applied-econo...