tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514352312859447561.post4641149229754926852..comments2024-01-30T03:30:45.740-05:00Comments on Bad Data, Bad!: McDonald's wages: not what they appearbs kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02871717971078952304noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514352312859447561.post-12208597781866564522013-08-08T19:42:12.742-04:002013-08-08T19:42:12.742-04:00Two years from now, there are people where I work ...Two years from now, there are people where I work who will quote this, incorrectly but with great annoyance, that if McDonald's doubled their wages, the cost of a Big Mac would only go up about 26 cents. There are a lot of folks out there who don't care about accuracy, they care about hating and punishing people they don;t like.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514352312859447561.post-6255582284903819292013-08-08T13:36:11.770-04:002013-08-08T13:36:11.770-04:00What baffles me most about their retraction is tha...<i>What baffles me most about their retraction is that they ask a blogger they have on their own staff to review it, and he calls BS immediately. How did that conversation not happen before you put up the sensational claim?</i><br /><br />Good point. There is a reason for peer review. What makes this whole story even more absurd is that the original paper was written by an UNDERGRADUATE. It is written by an UNDERGRADUATE, and no one bothers to check the article before publishing it. And media people wonder why their credibility has fallen so low in recent years.<br /><br />Gringonoreply@blogger.com