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he's good because he's careful, he does the maths right, and he's doing meta-analysis, so he has more data than the people he's being compared to. but he's pop

• andrewljohnson 14y ago
  Doing the math as "right" as he does it is incredibly hard. You can tell because academics do it totally wrong on a regular basis, which leads to many garbage papers, which thankfully sometimes get caught in peer review. It's true he's a good writer, but the proof is in the pudding. He could be foaming at the mouth, but if he's predicting the outcomes, people will tune in.
• tptacek 14y ago
  The math he's using is not hard, but the data sets he's working with are annoying.