Random Acts of Data with Dr. Anupam Jena
ParentData with Emily Oster
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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