No Paper Is That Good
I assume this relates mostly to economics or the humanities (social science, if you insist) in general. These apply to sciences too, but are less debilitating in the long run.<p><i>Fifth, most researchers’ priors are heavily influenced by some extremely suspicious factors.</i><p>Academics in the humanities identify themselves &quot;I am an X.&quot; X can be post structuralist, rational materialist, classical liberal or some other broad, hairy, intellectual identity. This is bad news for objectivity. Everyone has a dog in the fight.