Addendums: Gelman on Oster , Me on the Library
I’m posting this here simply to make sure readers see it, as I suspect they do not go back to the old posts particularly often, and they are worth mentioning.
First, I completely failed to note my gratitude to the Mansueto’s for their generous donation to the University of Chicago for the new library. Despite any complaints I have about the university’s design decisions, this does not diminish the generosity of their gift. I thank them for it and apologize for not thinking to say that in the original post.
Second, Gelman mentions that Oster’s retraction of her Hep B and missing women results was made possible by someone else’s year-old work, namely Monica Da Gupta. While I knew that Gupta’s results were out there, I failed to mention her as the first to effectively rebut of Oster’s original paper’s shortcomings. Oster’s paper was an effective nod to the rebuttal and an admission of wrongness. Many of us failed to mention the original work. This may be due to Stigler’s Law of Eponymy.
