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The Climate Gate scandal highlights the modus operandi of the academic mafia.
Required reading this Friday:
- How to Manufacture a Climate Consensus – About expelling the non-believers from the academic journals publishing on climate science
- The Dog Ate Global Warming – About the destruction of raw temperature data of Planet Earth
More info on climate change.
P.S.: East Anglia e-mails (CRU)
Unlike every other academic field, computer science uses conferences rather than journals as the main publication venue.
Lance Fortnow:
While this made sense for a young discipline, our field has matured and the conference model has fractured the discipline and skewered it toward short-term, deadline-driven research. Computer science should refocus the conference system on its primary purpose of bringing researchers together. We should use archive sites as the main method of quick paper [...]
Scholarly journals are not so open.
Academic Papers + Open Access + Scholarly Journals = a crazzzzzy mix
Robin Hanson: My best idea was prediction markets.
Robin Hanson’s auto-biography (i.e., how Our Master Of All Universes views HimSelf):
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Robin Hanson:
Do you find it hard to summarize yourself in a few words? Me too.
But I love the above quote. I have a passion, a sacred quest, to understand everything, and to save the world. I am addicted to “viewquakes”, insights which [...]
Andrew Gelman makes more sense than Robin Hanson.
Andrew Gelman:
I would go with the commonsensical view that academia is primarily an institution for teaching and research. I think of the credentialing as a byproduct.
Sounds logical.
Do economics professors who have business relationships with prediction market companies indoctrinate their students about the supposed benefits of prediction markets?
Read this New York Times article about academic–industry ties.
How much consulting and speaking fees (plus, free meals, tickets, trips or the like) do our economics professors receive from the prediction market industry?
Does it taint what they write and teach?
Should we ban prediction market companies from providing any academic funding?
Papers on prediction markets listed on Yiling Chen’s Harvard webpage:
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Publications
An Empirical Study of Dynamic Pari-mutuel Markets: Evidence from the Tech Buzz Game [PDF, 380k]
Yiling Chen, David M. Pennock, and Tejaswi Kasturi
The 10th Workshop on Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis (WebKDD), in conjunction with the 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Las Vegas, NV, [...]
Is the mechanism outputting Justin Wolfers as the most cited prediction market researcher completely rotten?
The mechanism doesn’t weight the reputation of the academic journals, etc.
Our previous MO blog post.
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Justin Wolfers [*] is the most cited prediction market economist
Economist Rankings at IDEAS
#390: Vernon Smith — #644: Justin Wolfers
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E-mail me if you think I forgot to spot a name in the list. (That could well be. There are so many names in the list.)
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[*] I suppose that the other guy is somewhat associated with that result.
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