Death-of-an-economist

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death-of-an-economist

Title text: We need to continue collecting data right until the moment that I appear to be right.

Votey

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Going to die horribly.

Death -of an-economist

I had a sip of methanol, which made me pleasantly inebriated. I defined inebriation to be happiness, then formed a model of methanol-happiness interactions that showed a strong positive correlation.

At that point I insisted that anyone in the room not drinking methanol was a backwards opponent of progress.

Later, it turned out there were second-order effects.

As I go into the darkness. Please tell my academic offspring to redefine all the model's parameters, but keep the name the same

You killed 50 people, including yourself

OH, so

You oppose randomized controlled

Trials?

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Votey Transcript

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Here lies an economist. Technically she was never wrong

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