• PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    A few years back there was some big economics study that supposedly proved that countries whose governments “stayed out of” the market had better metrics or some such neoliberal thing. Except a grad student figured out it was all bunk because he looked at the supporting documents and saw that the formula they used in Excel to find that claim missed like a third of the rows of the data and once the formula was extended all the way down, it produced an opposite conclusion.