[Air-L] Please explain your criticism

Barry Wellman wellman at chass.utoronto.ca
Tue Apr 30 19:18:34 PDT 2013


Ms Lattimore

thanks for the followup and your thoughts.

I've mostly given up trying to figure out why people do the research they 
do, and I've seen a lot worse papers in 45 years of refereeing.

We agree that the media almost always oversimplify, and don't know the 
difference between causation and correlation -- nor such things as biased 
samples. (I note the sample was not really described.)

Back to doing research

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