David Bartram

AI-generated text in a manuscript submitted to my journal.

I'm relieved -- I didn't want to proceed with it anyway and I would have struggled to explain why without spending hours on it. Thanks author for making my day easier.

This absolute turnip lives in Mississippi.

He's LITERALLY an economic migrant.

Does he have ZERO self-awareness?

Does he just think nobody will notice?

Or because he's an entitled white man, does he perhaps believe that he doesn't count?

Hmm. They already know what the answers are. Why bother with research??

It's a solicitation for a bunch of overly-long op-eds.

Actually existing capitalism: rig the market, avoid competition.
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I wish this post had led to a thread that names names.

I wish I were naming a name...

Surely Jenkins is just trolling @theguardian.com now -- testing how far he can go, what sort of idiotic Trump-addled headlines he can get away with before finally getting the (well-deserved) sack.

Bravo London.

Academics (including the journal’s founder) told Wiley to pound sand, started an open access journal, and Wiley just surrendered. I think more academics should tell academic publishers to pound sand. They are vampires.

Chatgpt vegan too🥰🥰🥰

Amid rising starvation in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli government minister said on Thursday that Israel had no duty to alleviate hunger in the territory and was seeking to expel its population. Amichay Eliyahu, a far-right lawmaker who leads Israel’s Heritage Ministry, said in a radio interview that “there is no nation that feeds its enemies,” adding that “the British didn’t feed the Nazis, nor did the Americans feed the Japanese, nor do the Russians feed the Ukrainians now.” He concluded that the government was “rushing toward Gaza being wiped out,” while also “driving out the population that educated its people on the ideas of ‘Mein Kampf,’” an antisemitic text written by Adolf Hitler.

pretty telling comment here. Britain and America absolutely did feed and clothe Nazi and Japanese POWs during WWII. and they provided food and supplies to occupied territories as the war was won. the Hunger Plan by contrast was a Nazi thing

The Israeli Sociological Society and yet not the American Sociological Association. Go figure...

If I wanted to see a national association suspended (on the basis of negative global impact of the corresponding national government), I'd sooner go for the American Sociological Association.

But really the ISA shouldn't be suspending either one.

This is projection. It's what Trump has nightmares about.

The U.K. Closed a Tax Loophole for the Global Rich. Now They’re Fleeing. Instead of paying up, wealthy expats are getting out—sparking questions about whether the move will raise any money at all.

Good riddance* -- even if it means lower tax revenues. The UK has been distorted by excess presence of the super-rich for far too long.

*If they leave, that is. The article here leads with someone who is "planning" to leave. Looking forward to the follow-up article.

www.wsj.com/world/uk/the...

Sometimes I despair at the level of quantitative understanding among (some) social scientists.

I submitted a commentary to a top journal, on an earlier article they had published. The authors misinterpreted their results & reach the wrong conclusion. The incorrect finding is potentially damaging.

Perhaps that's as it should be. But there's moral hazard in both directions.

33 internal staff -- plus the people working at 5 external firms...

Those numbers surely provide some safety for someone who wants to leak the names.

The published paper concludes, in so many words, that there was no evidence of an increase at all ("null").

A 16 percentage-point increase in the rate of something really bad.

That's the conservative specification. In a slightly looser specification, a 34 percentage-point increase.

I'm so naive...

But the editor *always* knows.

No-one is perfect. I figure it is likely that I’ve published flawed manuscripts. (So far, no-one has submitted a commentary along those lines; if they did, I’d take it very seriously.)

But this is why it’s important to acknowledge mistakes, rather than burying them. 5/5

The issue should have been caught by the reviewers of the original manuscript – or at least by the editors. Once the editors see it (via my commentary), they shouldn’t let the published article stand unchallenged.

This sort of misunderstanding is rampant… 4/5

The faulty interpretation comes from misuse of statistical significance. A value of p larger than 0.05 became grounds for a “null” finding.

But there’s no random sample here – in fact, there’s no sample at all. That’s a “technicality” that really matters, even if the reviewers don’t see it. 3/5

The journal sent my commentary to two reviewers. One review is full of (statistical) nonsense. The other says: yes, the original finding is wrong – but your commentary is too focused on technicalities.

So, the journal rejected it – while also “not endorsing” the published article’s findings. 2/5

Sometimes I despair at the level of quantitative understanding among (some) social scientists.

I submitted a commentary to a top journal, on an earlier article they had published. The authors misinterpreted their results & reach the wrong conclusion. The incorrect finding is potentially damaging.

Published @socialindicators.bsky.social as part of a special issue on The impact of the COVID-19 effects on individuals’ subjective well-being. Curated by M. Collischon, J. Kroh and @patzinaalex.bsky.social
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Alan Dershowitz to the rescue!

MAGA will listen to the Dersh. (Even if they won't listen to 47 ... I guess ...)

www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Won't anyone think of the poor editors...