The Randomistas' War On Global Poverty - ERRATUM & ADDENDUM

Some blog followers might be interested in a recent post “The Randomistas’ War On Global Poverty - ERRATUM & ADDENDUM” [Hake (2012a)]. The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: My post “The Randomistas' War On Global Poverty” [Hake (2012b)] at http://bit.ly/V93tXl:

I. Contains an ERRATUM: I wrote: “. . . . . there's no indication that the ‘Center for Economic and Policy Research’ (CEPR) http://bit.ly/U1DTSU, FOR WHICH DUFLO IS A PROGRAM DIRECTOR FOR DEVELOPMENTAL ECONOMICS http://bit.ly/VgQ3y8, is aware of the overriding influence of poverty on the educational achievement of U.S. children. . . .” Contrary to that statement, Duflo is a program director for the EUROPEAN “Centre for Economic Policy Research” http://www.cepr.org/ & http://bit.ly/TwYuzM, NOT the U.S. “Center for Economic and Policy Research” (CEPR) http://www.cepr.net/ & http://bit.ly/U1DTSU. So Duflo bares ZERO responsibility for the U.S. CEPR’s seeming unawareness of “the overriding influence of poverty on the educational achievement of U.S. children.”

II. Now requires an ADDENDUM: In response to Hake (2012), Guy Brandenberg (2012) of the EDDRA2 list pointed to a PLoS Medicine article by John Ioannidis http://bit.ly/Vb1u70 titled “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False” at http://1.usa.gov/YxUxkL, wherein Ioannidis wrote: “. . . . there is strong evidence that selective outcome reporting, with manipulation of the outcomes and analyses reported, is a common problem even for randomized trails [Chan et al. (2004)] at http://1.usa.gov/X8SB1T.” For a good discussion of the important work of Ioannidis see the Atlantic article “Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science” by David Freedman (2010) at http://bit.ly/11aAmt0.
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REFERENCES [URL shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 30 Nov 2012.]
Hake, R.R. 2012a. “The Randomistas’ War On Global Poverty - ERRATUM & ADDENDUM,” online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/YfMESg. Post of 30 Nov 2012 12:15:33-0800 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists.

Hake, R.R. 2012b. “The Randomistas’ War On Global Poverty (was Chocolate Makes You Smart),” online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/V93tXl. Post of 29 Nov 2012 14:27:16-0800 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists and are also on my blog “Hake'sEdStuff” at http://bit.ly/Rm6Oqw with a provision for comments.