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You always get bad papers in any discipline, on any subject. The question is whether you get good papers on the subject or not.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Mon Oct 20th, 2008 at 11:34:57 AM EST
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Or how easy it is to get them researched in the first place, and published in 'serious' journals if they challenge conventional wisdom.

But that just highlights the double standard - this study was quoted by 'serious' researchers as if it was definitive and utterly professional, when in fact it was a very small data set collected under less than strictly controlled conditions as a high school student science fair project.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Mon Oct 20th, 2008 at 05:25:31 PM EST
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