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Originally posted by RACooper
Well the study that you referenced by Barro for one; there was a segement discussing questions about the Groseclose-Miylo studies methodology: specifically questions over the 1 for 1 rating of citations, without weighting them, or adjusting for context (ie. whether the cited "liberal" or "conservative" source was referenced in a positive or negative context); and the use of MRC references for some of the research material...
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I didn't see the piece, obviously, but the 'weighting' referenced here (as well as contextualization) is a heated research topic in every field. For instance, weighting in my field has been disallowed because Bayesian workup of numbers adds yet another bias to the figures.
These are tenuous bases for attack on studies; the empiricism behind the numbers is always up for discussion, no matter how they're done. This is the real world of statistics.