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Confirmation bias. Honestly, IMO most of economics "research" is just a random assortment of bullshit viewed through a lens of confirmation bias. Results don't
by tqi 5y ago
Confirmation bias.
Honestly, IMO most of economics "research" is just a random assortment of bullshit viewed through a lens of confirmation bias. Results don't match your priors? Make adjustments to your model assumptions until it does. Disagree with a result? Point out at all the ways in which those assumptions are imperfect. Results match your priors? LGTM.
- malshe 5y agoThe research papers go through reviewers who can very easily spot these things. In fact in most research articles you have to explicitly show that relaxing certain assumptions don't completely invalidate your results.
- edmundsauto 5y agoIronically, your comment can be interpreted as confirmation bias. Predisposed to not trusting economic research -> see an article about economic research -> confirms previous beliefs.