http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog/2009/11/24/economists-are-terrible-people/ “We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done." Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:00:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog/2009/11/24/economists-are-terrible-people/#comment-260 Robin Hanson Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:15:36 +0000 http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog/?p=1693#comment-260 See the very end of <a href="http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/11/do-men-hurt-more.html" rel="nofollow">that post</a> for a link to <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7776642" rel="nofollow">supporting evidence</a>. See the very end of that post for a link to supporting evidence.

]]> http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog/2009/11/24/economists-are-terrible-people/#comment-259 JSK Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:14:52 +0000 http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog/?p=1693#comment-259 Hmmm.. Hanson comes from the physical sciences (and is, not completely coincidentally, probably autistic), and is almost completely unknown in the discipline at large. Hmmm.. Hanson comes from the physical sciences (and is, not completely coincidentally, probably autistic), and is almost completely unknown in the discipline at large.

]]> http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog/2009/11/24/economists-are-terrible-people/#comment-258 Ana Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:28:01 +0000 http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog/?p=1693#comment-258 Magfrump, by supporting evidence, do you mean the following quote from the linked post? I quote: "We often see a women complaining about a men, to that man or to other women. We less often see the gender-reversed scenario. At least that is what I see, in friends, family, movies, and music." I'm sure we all know that the plural of anecdote is not data. Magfrump, by supporting evidence, do you mean the following quote from the linked post? I quote: “We often see a women complaining about a men, to that man or to other women. We less often see the gender-reversed scenario. At least that is what I see, in friends, family, movies, and music.” I’m sure we all know that the plural of anecdote is not data.

]]> http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog/2009/11/24/economists-are-terrible-people/#comment-257 JS Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:51:05 +0000 http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog/?p=1693#comment-257 So women wail and gnash their teeth? So women wail and gnash their teeth?

]]> http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog/2009/11/24/economists-are-terrible-people/#comment-256 magfrump Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:45:46 +0000 http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog/?p=1693#comment-256 When you say "this particular claim is entirely unsupported." you leave out the link the author posted to a post on how men complain less; that is, the supporting evidence. If you have a problem with the evidential post, that's separate from saying that the claim is "entirely unsupported." When you say “this particular claim is entirely unsupported.” you leave out the link the author posted to a post on how men complain less; that is, the supporting evidence. If you have a problem with the evidential post, that’s separate from saying that the claim is “entirely unsupported.”

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