Re:Economics education can shift people in a selfish direction?
by dang on Sunday August 31, 2014 @03:21PM
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This comment starts out as a shallow dismissal, rejecting the article with generic hand-waves, and then nose-dives off topic.
The article may be wrong but is not unsubstantive, and it appears to describe work done by many researchers. It deserves better. A better discussion would engage seriously with specifics. "Seriously" implies making less wild claims and trying to substantiate what one says.
There's a grain of a specific response here: the claim that the links don't point to data that can be inspected. But that doesn't mean the work is worthless, just that academic paywalls are a problem.
We did change the linkbaity title (probably not the work of the author) to a sentence from the article, and added a question mark, in the hope of dampening this sort of reaction.
The article may be wrong but is not unsubstantive, and it appears to describe work done by many researchers. It deserves better. A better discussion would engage seriously with specifics. "Seriously" implies making less wild claims and trying to substantiate what one says.
There's a grain of a specific response here: the claim that the links don't point to data that can be inspected. But that doesn't mean the work is worthless, just that academic paywalls are a problem.
We did change the linkbaity title (probably not the work of the author) to a sentence from the article, and added a question mark, in the hope of dampening this sort of reaction.