Article  "The worst research papers I’ve ever published" (Andrew Gelman)

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INTRO: Following up on this recent post, I’m preparing something on weak research produced by Nobel prize winners. Just to be fair, I thought I should lead this off with a post on weak research produced by . . . me!

Putting together this list wasn’t as easy as I’d thought. I’ve published hundreds of papers and I like almost all of them! But I found a few that I think it’s fair to say are pretty bad. These papers have coauthors, but I blame me, not them, for the bad stuff... (MORE - details)
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