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Stuart Buck
@stuartbuck1
Executive Director, Good Science Project, https://t.co/vIa4YrDdBu Senior Advisor, Social Science Research Council
Nov 13 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Someone needs to decide:

Is the goal to improve government efficiency, or to cut government waste?

These are very different!

If the idea is to prevent every case in which government allegedly wasted money, the result will be ENORMOUS bureaucracy, not efficiency. In 1988, Stanford famously charged depreciation on a yacht to the federal government.

The resulting federal crackdown led to "red tape and organizational disaster."

It would have been far cheaper and more efficient just to pay for the occasional yacht.journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…
Jan 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It's easy to romanticize the past . . .

My grandfather was born in this farmhouse in Arkansas. Life was so hard that he couldn't afford new shoes--he had to repair old shoes with tire rubber.

He hoped I would grow up to "get an indoors job."

google.com/maps/@36.39537… Which I did.

Am I happier than him? Hard to say -- incommensurability of personal experiences, hedonic adaptation, etc.

But with my allergies, I suspect I'd feel like him if I had to spend all day in the dust, wind, and sun, cleaning out barns with animal excrement, etc.
Jan 20, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
UT professor Paul von Hippel and I published a piece today in Nature Human Behavior. The title: "Improve academic search engines to reduce scholars' biases." Image A problem that we notice with Google Scholar is that it's often hard to surface replications. Highly-cited articles are prioritized in search results because they are highly-cited, even if there's a failed replication that deserves equal placement.
Oct 9, 2022 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
I've been seeing this story a lot on Twitter today: floridahealth.gov/newsroom/2022/…

Headline: Florida Surgeon General shows that there is an "84% increase in the relative incidence of cardiac-related death among males 18-39 years old within 28 days following mRNA vaccination" But it's one of the worst studies I've ever seen. It doesn't show what you might think, not even close.

Here's why.
Jun 17, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Important new paper from Larry Orr, Rob Olsen, @lizstuartdc, and others. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100… In thinking about evidence-based policy, policymakers might often wonder, "Will the results of one evaluation/RCT apply to my jurisdiction?"

Orr et al. look at three RCTs in education (one on 36 charter schools, one on ed tech in 132 schools, and one on 84 Head Start centers).
Jul 10, 2018 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
I was going to write up a response to this PNAS piece: Redish et al., “Reproducibility failures are essential to scientific inquiry.” pnas.org/content/115/20… But I realized that 1) PNAS might not publish it; 2) Even if they did, it would take a long time; 3) Posting my thoughts on Twitter would probably reach more people (about 2,000 people minimum, and a lot more depending on retweets).