I don't think that's correct. The "overall result" was originally a marked effect, and the one after correction was pretty much noise. Yes, it pointed in the

I don't think that's correct. The "overall result" was originally a marked effect, and the one after correction was pretty much noise. Yes, it pointed in the same direction, but without a notable impact. It's like trying to convince your parents to let you stay home by faking a temperature on the thermometer, then when caught repeating the measurement and shouting about how it actually shows 98.9°F and you really do have a fever! Consensus was and remains that public debt and GDP growth correlate very poorly if at all, and the book that claimed the opposite was simply wrong.