Random Acts of Data with Dr. Anupam Jena
ParentData with Emily Oster
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The Importance of Incentives in Journal Publishing
The journal's incentive is attention, and new media loves headlines like "Peanuts cause dementia" It's actually not that interesting to publish a paper that says there's no link between any known foods and dementia. And I think that's where the gatekeepers need to be involved. We click that because we want to know the answer to a question that matters to us.
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