Thread by @Noahpinion

This study claims economists are bad communicators on Twitter because they use more big words than scientists do.

But I think that just might reflect the fact that economists use Twitter for technical academic discussions more than scientists do.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview…

You can argue that by keeping things too academic, economists are leaving econ communication to think tankers, pundits, and political shills.

But there's not necessarily a trade-off there - you can tweet about research AND tweet to the public in simpler terms, if you want.

Also, econ is just much less certain than science.

We know a lot about how gravity works. We don't know a lot about how recessions work.

When you have less certainty, it's good to evangelize less.