Saturday, December 10, 2011

Publication tree


Too bad the nice folks at the New York Times do not understand that economists often use medical journals as outlets for papers with sexy topics but weak identification.

I got this from someone on Facebook - maybe Pierre Leget?

2 comments:

Unknown said...

The corollary
http://adai.files.wordpress.com/2006/12/borgman042797_600x385.jpg?w=508&h=397

MorrisH3 said...

You might also want to include panel studies that are underpowered. "Does knuckle cracking lead to arthritis of the fingers?" by Donald Unger is a particularly good example.