https://quoderat.megginson.com/2006/08/03/stephens-vs-wikipedia/ Open information and technology. Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:32:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ https://quoderat.megginson.com/2006/08/03/stephens-vs-wikipedia/#comment-502 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:32:49 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2006/08/03/stephens-vs-wikipedia/#comment-502 I’m not sure his blog has it right in my experience Wikipedia is generally useful, sometimes fun, often entertaining.

]]> https://quoderat.megginson.com/2006/08/03/stephens-vs-wikipedia/#comment-501 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 14:42:54 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2006/08/03/stephens-vs-wikipedia/#comment-501 Alas, most of the accounts in Freakonomics are basically just-so stories, and not of Kipling’s caliber either. The explanations don’t, in other words, distinguish between how something actually came to pass and how it merely might have come to pass. This leaves them outside science, neither verifiable nor falsifiable.

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