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Think of how much better off we'd be if every established researcher got in the habit of writing papers entitled "Second thoughts on [thing I'm famous for]"
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by Kris Hardies

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Isn't this just, the times they are a-changin?

It's hardly 10y ago that Stanford hosted the "Causality in the Social Sciences Conference", which was quite eye opening for many people in accounting and finance.

Before the credibility revolution there was no need to think about all of this.
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This seems a bit of a common thread among a lot of anti-AI discourse: Sensible/obvious/interesting commentary mixed with rather stupid anti-capitalism sentiment.
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Is dat wel zo? Ik weet dat Kathryn Harden (*) dat zegt, maar het is minder evident, zie bijv. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

(*) Ik las recent haar boek en het is goed geschreven, maar uiteindelijk vond ik het toch wat teleurstellend (ietwat oppervlakkig qua filosofisch denken en sociaalbeleid).

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Would you care to elaborate about this?
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by Kris Hardies

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"Vakantie is voor watjes" hangt er op een poster bij ons op de campus, ter aanmoediging van studenten tijdens de 2de zit, ik erger er me dood aan.

Die normalisering van 2de zittijd, mede door de universiteit zelf, is echt problematisch – en best recent, ik ben nog niet zo oud.
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by Kris Hardies

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Immediately have to think about this now -- fitting it's in German, even though Asterix is French.
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65 JAHRE ASTERIX | Der legendäre Passierschein A38 aus "Asterix erobert Rom"
Die spinnen, die Römer! Das Duo Asterix & Obelix, deren Dorf erbitterten Widerstand gegen Julius Cäsar leisten, sind legendär! Vor 65 Jahre erschien der erste Band von René Goscinny und Albert Uderzo. Schau dir hier eine der legendärsten Szenen der Zeichentrickfilme an - den Passierschein A38 aus "Asterix erobert Rom". ► Abonniere STUDIOCANAL Germany: http://bit.ly/1jyEcJd ► Werde Fan: http://www.facebook.com/STUDIOCANAL.GERMANY ► Subscribe: https://www.instagram.com/studiocanal.de Inhalt: Noch immer leistet ein kleines gallisches Dorf den römischen Übergriffen erbitterten Widerstand. Aber Cäsar gibt nicht auf und will endlich reinen Tisch machen. Und so macht er sich auf den Weg zu den unbesiegbaren Galliern, um ihnen eine Wette vorzuschlagen. Sollten sie wirklich alle zwölf Aufgaben erfolgreich lösen, die Cäsar sich ausgedacht hat, dann wird er seinen Rücktritt erklären. Cäsar rechnet allerdings nicht mit den beiden listigen Freunden Asterix und Obelix, die die Wette auf ihre ganz spezielle Art und Weise einlösen. © 1975 LES ÉDITIONS ALBERT RENÉ / GOSCINNY-UDERZO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. #asterixobelix #65JahreAsterix
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by Kris Hardies — Reposted by Kris Hardies

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I think Colin is 100% right here. Obviously, fake data, fake citations, etc. are a problem, but I see no reason why they'd be more problematic if authors used AI. Not only does that seem the only workable stance, I also think it's the only principled stance that makes sense.
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by John A. List — Reposted by Kris Hardies, Joshua Goodman, David J. Berri , and 2 more

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Referees make the journal system work. They are selfless in volunteering their time to ensure that our science continues to progress.

All of the great referees out there please know that editors recognize your hard work and tireless effort. We do not always say it, but we do! Thank you.
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Reposted by Kris Hardies, Steven G. Medema, Mark E. Schaffer , and 1 more

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The discussion ending at this tweet is very smart on both sides ( @lugaricano.bsky.social and @shengwuli.bsky.social ), reasonably spicy, and fun to read.
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Luis Garicano @lugaricano.bsky.social · Jan 14
I don't think the argument for the price system rests on full information. I think it rests on Hayek 1945, hence precisely on dispersed local knowledge --i said that before. But let's leave it here. I think we clarified quite a bit, and I hope some of our readers (if there are any!) learned a bit.
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by Kris Hardies

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Accounting. (*)
(*) Some would say the pay is better as well, but, of course, that's mostly just in the US.

I do want to invent "accounting OF PoS" now 😀
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by Kris Hardies

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Count yourself lucky you're in a field where the norm isn't to have you jump through revision hoops 4-5 times for each and every paper. 😀
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Also reading this right now, so hopefully this will turn out to be such a book!

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Reading this 2013 book – not much new at this point anymore – really makes me wonder which books I should be reading now rather than 10+ years from now ...
#science #books #causality
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Should we start using the term "misracing"?!
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Thanks for the elaborative response, interesting!
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Thanks for the comment @marcelorinesi.bsky.social not sure if I'm understanding it correctly. The task (evaluating if a paper should get published [in journal X]) is the same as under the current review system.

Of course, I'm assuming we accept the "jury theorem" arguments from that paper.
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by Kris Hardies

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Interesting paper on peer review bsky.app/profile/last... I think a variation is possible where a journal would actually experiment with such an approach to decide whether to publish a paper or not.

Focus is only on evaluation then but can be combined with improvement if we want that.
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Kris Hardies @krishardies.bsky.social · Jun 26
The interesting thing about the "crowd-sourced peer review" suggestion is that it seems a journal could implement this. Say you have 200 editorial board members. Instead of asking 2 to review as editorial input, give all of them access to the paper and decide accept/reject if you have 10 votes.

by Kris Hardies

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The interesting thing about the "crowd-sourced peer review" suggestion is that it seems a journal could implement this. Say you have 200 editorial board members. Instead of asking 2 to review as editorial input, give all of them access to the paper and decide accept/reject if you have 10 votes.
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by Kris Hardies

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Thanks, Bart! @penders.bsky.social

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Any work to recommend? I was recently looking for research specifically on the end of research fields but didn't find much of interest
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A market with multiple large competitors, many smaller ones, and low fixed costs (entry barriers?) for sure doesn't scream monopoly to me; whatever profits there are made. Not saying there is no market power (let alone no problems).
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It's interesting that from the top five in econ, only Econometrica is published by one of the big commercial publishers, but I don't think that has any marked effect on how publishing in econ works compared to other fields. It's very unclear that non-profit or academic publishers are any better.
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Or entirely from scratch such as @collabrapsychology.bsky.social There are also still plenty of non-profit publishers (electronic engineering is dominated by IEEE), including academic associations.
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It's also not so clear that journals' reputation is heavily tied to their publishers. There are quite a few examples where editorial boards resigned en masse and succesfully started a new journal (e.g. Glossa in linguistics, Quantitative Science Studies, and very recently Imaging Neuroscience).
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by Kris Hardies

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Not getting hung up on semantics, I think the Q is essentially about market power. I'm inclined to believe that the big academic publishers have (too much) market power but I've never seen good evidence. Yes, their market share and profit margins are high but that's not market power per se.
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Why is this a natural monopoly? [Reputation is more of a barrier than cost structure, I guess, and there are recent examples that journals can be launched succesfully from scratch.] You're probably right about the rents but I've never seen any good analyses on this.
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Reposted by Kris Hardies, Olivier Klein, Wim Van Lancker , and 1 more

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"Simpson's gender-equality paradox" surely deserve some award for best title 👑
The gender-equality paradox seems really central to some narrative people have constructed (and successfully sold). I absolutely wouldn't be surprised if it turned out 100% confounding.>

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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by Kris Hardies

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A bit sad to see an online meeting/training on ”How to make your research reproducible”, seeing canceled 'due to too few registrations.' :-\
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I don't think the "without compensation" is correct framing because we're paid by our uni and do this during working hours (I admit, we can disagree on the latter part). It should be rewarded by the uni if they think it's part of what they're paying us for, but I think that's a different point.

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