Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. The links are back from vacation. We may have a few back links to catch
Interview with President of the Flat Earth Society Ioannidis debunks medical conferences Abhijit Banerjee on the Guardian developm,ent podcast IDS has a governance and development
Randomized evaluation is not without its critics, who say that there is little benefit in learning rigorously about one context because the lessons will not
Writing in the New Yorker, Jonah Lehrer highlights the slipperiness of empiricism: all sorts of well-established, multiply confirmed findings have started to look increasingly uncertain. It’s
Ioannidis says most published research findings are false. This is plausible in his field of medicine where it is easy to imagine that there are
In the paper, Ioannidis laid out a detailed mathematical proof that, assuming modest levels of researcher bias, typically imperfect research techniques, and the well-known tendency
