It’s Harvard time, baby: “Kerfuffle” is what you call it when you completely botched your data but you don’t want to change your conclusions.

For it’s Harvard this, an’ Harvard that, an’ “Give the debt the boot!” But it’s “Academic kerfuffle,” when the guns begin to shoot. — Rudyard Kipling, American Economic Review, 1890. Remember the “Excel error”? This was the econ paper from … Continue reading → …