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This is an appeal to authority and regardless, if you pass off something as proven fact you should have to be damned sure. Being wrong and claiming later that
by edgyquant 3y ago
This is an appeal to authority and regardless, if you pass off something as proven fact you should have to be damned sure. Being wrong and claiming later that it’s a coding error should not cut it. This should result in a total loss of credibility
- huitzitziltzin 3y agoI don’t mind appealing to authority when I know the economics profession personally. To be clear: it is an embarrassing error. Everyone also thinks this. They have been dragged for it quite a bit. But it was not deliberate. In terms of the “total loss of credibility” … the fraction of empirical papers with some coding error approaches 1. The question is how bad it is.