Is This a Black Eye for Economics?

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This episode is a black eye for economics and more broadly, for science. Journals are now starting to demand the data up front. Security checks and card rills that need to be put in place. For example, use benford's law to see whether the data have been fabricated.

In a new book called The Voltage Effect, the economist John List — who has already revolutionized how his profession does research — is trying to start a scaling revolution. In this installment of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, List teaches us how to avoid false positives, how to know whether a given success is due to the chef or the ingredients, and how to practice “optimal quitting.”