Post 9mebLU5XFTTUEHc1r6 by mplouffe@scholar.social
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 (DIR) Post #9mebLTRpd5iQF92JyC by mplouffe@scholar.social
       2019-09-05T15:42:27Z
       
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       Writing about problems in country-level foreign direct investment data and... I don't even know why we bother analyzing that shit. :BlobCatGooglyShrug:
       
 (DIR) Post #9mebLTlKSbJNDc9tMO by bookandswordblog@scholar.social
       2019-09-06T13:01:09Z
       
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       @mplouffe Yeah, I notice that economists often treat data like it was dictated to them in the night by Ea the Wise and Nisaba the Lady of the Stylus, but talk to anyone who has looked closely or examined how it was collected and you get an earful.
       
 (DIR) Post #9mebLU5XFTTUEHc1r6 by mplouffe@scholar.social
       2019-09-06T14:32:52Z
       
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       @bookandswordblog Interesting thing is that I've got four papers on FDI data issues: one from international business, two from international political economy, and one from international economics. The last one doesn't actually talk about data problems, just about how micro and macro approaches complement each other. :blobwhee: :BlobCatGooglyShrug:
       
 (DIR) Post #9mebLUQnyOULIFZ10a by bookandswordblog@scholar.social
       2019-09-06T17:28:16Z
       
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       @mplouffe You might enjoy Michael Smith's "When Big Data are Bad Data" https://publishingarchaeology.blogspot.com/2018/12/when-big-data-are-bad-data.html
       
 (DIR) Post #9mebNED3FxetYrxYZ6 by mplouffe@scholar.social
       2019-09-06T17:49:40Z
       
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       @bookandswordblog Thanks for the recommendation - very interesting. Reminds me a bit of a dataset in economics on per capita income going back a couple thousand years that went through some significant revision a few years ago because of source issues...
       
 (DIR) Post #9mebNEWu49XQYRFPVY by dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud
       2019-09-06T18:20:34Z
       
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       @mplouffe Maddison?@bookandswordblog
       
 (DIR) Post #9meeVcEA8rdQENAcXA by mplouffe@scholar.social
       2019-09-06T18:55:40Z
       
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       @dredmorbius @bookandswordblog Yep!