Uber and the Sherlock Holmes Principle: How Control of Data Can Lead to Biased Academic Research

How can we ensure that academic journals do not become an unintended instrument in the PR efforts of powerful firms? Luigi Zingales offers some solutions. “Our data science team reviewed this report and found it to be flawed.” So said an Uber spokesperson upon the release of a Stigler Center working paper, which showed that … Continue reading Uber and the Sherlock Holmes Principle: How Control of Data Can Lead to Biased Academic Research