Friday Beer Post

Ummmm...John? 

According to the study, published in February in Oikos, a highly respected scientific journal, the more beer a scientist drinks, the less likely the scientist is to publish a paper or to have a paper cited by another researcher, a measure of a paper’s quality and importance.

Oddly enough, the more beer I drink the more likely you are to read my posts.  Strange.

Comments

[John Whitehead]

This must explain why my RePEc ranking is lower than Mankiw's.

[Mike Giberson]

The results are based upon empirical studies of Czech ornithologists.

I think we need experimental testing with economists in the lab to gain further insight.

[John Whitehead]

Actually, we could do this with an online env-econ.net survey:

1. How many beers (or inferior alcoholic beverages) did you typically drink each week ...

____ over the past year?

____ over the past five years?

____ between graduate school and the past five years?

____ in graduate school?

2. How many refereed papers have you published ....

_____ in a good economics journal?

_____ in an OK economics journal?

Add some demographic questions and Tim could write out a likelihood function and estimate the model in Gauss.

[Tim Haab]

I'm on it. Let me design the survey...Might take a week or so...I'm traveling to see a big hole in the ground next week.

[another john whitehead]

I read the paper where this study was published and would like to point out two items:

1) The person (data point) in this study with the highest publication rate was smack in the middle for beer consumption. There is hope for us all.

2) The median beer consumption for researchers in the Bohemian region of the Czech republic was 200 liters/year. Median! That's roughly 566 twelve-ounce bottles per year. That statistic I cannot compete with.

[John Whitehead]

Tim Haab's, played by a young Chevy Chase, family vacation? Load up the station wagon!