tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6976144462093297473.post3411487971203673045..comments2024-03-26T19:10:00.791-04:00Comments on West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more): "So long and thanks for all the fish"Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10760453165301871031noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6976144462093297473.post-4873148249430728962015-10-09T01:36:12.859-04:002015-10-09T01:36:12.859-04:00Andrew,
My concerns are not necessarily with publ...<br />Andrew,<br /><br />My concerns are not necessarily with publicizing and popularizing. There's lots of great reporting out there on science, technology, business and other analytic topics. TAL, Marketplace, even Cracked.com. It is entirely possible to make complex topics accessible without oversimplifying, to make them entertaining without embellishing. <br /><br />I suspect the trouble lies in the fact that the oversimplified and the embellished is so much quicker and easier and that not enough people (particularly in editorial positions) fully understand or care about the underlying subtleties. If so, complaining about low standards while trying to get higher quality material in the pipeline makes perfect sense.<br />Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14705408455380402571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6976144462093297473.post-63832534714125648952015-10-08T19:52:09.595-04:002015-10-08T19:52:09.595-04:00Mark:
Regarding Ted talks and also related scienc...Mark:<br /><br />Regarding Ted talks and also related science things such as publication in the "tabloids" (Science, Nature, PPNAS) and being featured by David Brooks or Malcolm Gladwell or Steven Levitt:<br /><br />Researchers such as myself are in a bind. On one hand we have distaste for Ted-style hyping. On the other hand, a big reason we do science is to make a difference. So . . . I've submitted papers to Science and Nature and PPNAS. I haven't been interviewed by Gladwell but I wouldn't complain if it happened. My own work has been hyped on the Freakonomics blog (of course I don't think of it as hype because my work is careful). And I'd gladly give a Ted talk; the only reason I haven't is that nobody's asked me.<br /><br />Sure, it's possible to opt out of the publicity game, but for those of us who do want our research to make a short-term or medium-term difference, opting out isn't much of an option. So here we are, simultaneously complaining about the publicity machine and trying to be part of it.Andrew Gelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02715992780769751789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6976144462093297473.post-3377323393489528472015-10-08T13:55:58.950-04:002015-10-08T13:55:58.950-04:00Thank you for this. Gals to know I'm not the o...Thank you for this. Gals to know I'm not the only one who turns off RadioLab. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com