tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6976144462093297473.post734351356729648148..comments2024-03-26T19:10:00.791-04:00Comments on West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more): This would tend to support the hack hypothesisJosephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10760453165301871031noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6976144462093297473.post-86161179764323560722015-10-28T17:42:27.536-04:002015-10-28T17:42:27.536-04:00Ahhh, yes, I knew I wrote about this already! See...Ahhh, yes, I knew I wrote about this already! See <a href="http://andrewgelman.com/2013/07/01/going-meta-on-niall-ferguson/" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Andrew Gelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02715992780769751789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6976144462093297473.post-42462787099975450252015-10-28T09:42:02.533-04:002015-10-28T09:42:02.533-04:00P.S. This discussion is somehow reminding me of t...P.S. This discussion is somehow reminding me of the famous Linda, and the probability that she is a bank teller, or a bank teller who is active in the feminist movement. Taking one of these pieces of information makes the other piece more plausible.Andrew Gelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02715992780769751789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6976144462093297473.post-40376864886656141412015-10-28T09:40:49.432-04:002015-10-28T09:40:49.432-04:00Mark:
Hack and ideologue go together. If you'...Mark:<br /><br />Hack and ideologue go together. If you're an ideologue, hack behavior can seem ok if it is serving a larger cause. So maybe Ferguson feels that, ok, sure, he's not connecting all the dots, but his larger point (that big-spending decadent liberals are betraying the magnificent legacy of Western civilization) is true, and from his standpoint that's what's important.Andrew Gelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02715992780769751789noreply@blogger.com