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As a physicist, it might just be my layman's impression, but it does seem like economics people are just putting a list of points in Excel, no error bars or any
by drowsspa 3y ago
As a physicist, it might just be my layman's impression, but it does seem like economics people are just putting a list of points in Excel, no error bars or anything. I don't think I've ever seen some error propagation stuff in some Economics calculation.
- huitzitziltzin 3y agoAs a physicist, I think you probably don’t have enough experience with economics research. (Which is fine! It’s not your field!) Quantification of uncertainty is bread and butter for us! Criticize the field fo relying on null hypothesis significance testing, not for failing to provide measures of uncertainty!!
- drowsspa 3y agoI've seen errors being considered while fitting a model, but not in the source data or when using the fitted data in another calculation. But yeah, I hope it's just a simplification for laymen like me. But the fact that apparently there weren't errors bars in a dataset so important such as population estimatives doesn't give me the right impression
- addcommitpush 3y agoThey care enough to p-hack [0] though [0] https://sciencessociales.uottawa.ca/economics/sites/socialsciences.uottawa.ca.economics/files/1505e.pdf https://sciencessociales.uottawa.ca/economics/sites/socialsc...