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If you (like me) weren't familiar with the Excel mistake: https://www.businessinsider.com/reinhart-and-rogoff-admit-excel-blunder-2013-4 https://www.businessin
by MPSimmons 3y ago
If you (like me) weren't familiar with the Excel mistake:
https://www.businessinsider.com/reinhart-and-rogoff-admit-excel-blunder-2013-4 https://www.businessinsider.com/reinhart-and-rogoff-admit-ex...
- Brentward 3y agoI thought it was going to be the Excel DNA to date conversion. https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...
- teachrdan 3y agoI love that the grad student who caught it came from a Marxist-oriented economics program. He legit figured it out by trying to replicate the results published by Reinhart and Rogoff. Not-so-fun fact: Economists don't publish their actual Excel spreadsheets, which would have made their error trivial to prove, but just the results! https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-excel-error-heard-round-the-world https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-excel-error-heard-round...