Archive for the ‘economics’ Category
Number Crunchers
Posted on: December 3, 2009
Steve Levitt asks:
Is it surprising that scientists would try to keep work that disagrees with their findings out of journals?
Yes. Yes it is.
It’s also deeply depressing.
Luckily, the fuckers that work for the CRU don’t appear to be scientists. Rather, they deal in statistics and prediction (much the same as economists like Steve Levitt). So I [...]
Tagged as: bullshit statistics, ethics, making things up
A damn genius I tell ye!
Posted on: June 10, 2009
It now appears Gordon Broon deliberately engineered the shitty state of the economy, precipitating the collapse of the pound, in order to increase the competitiveness of our export economy.
And here was me thinking that economists are all snake oil salesmen. Don’t I feel stupit.
[Aptly prescient bonus photo.]
Tagged as: broon is still and idiot, economics is not a science, talking shite