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Bill Gardner
The Ohio State University
Professor of Pediatrics, Psychology, and Psychiatry
Interests: I am a psychologist and biostatistician pursuing health services research.
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Neil and Eric -- thanks for the corrections.
I am interested in the highly skewed distributions of citation counts. These journals are extremely selective. Yet only a very few papers seem to get widely read. This is true in every discipline, so far as I know.
So are the journals selecting poorly? Are citation counts poor indicators of quality?
Commented Jul 15, 2013 on So, how did Analysis stack up against Phil Review / JPhi / Mind (1995-8)? at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
So, how did Analysis stack up against Phil Review / JPhi / Mind (1995-8)?
In comments, David Chalmers generously acknowledged that his famous (co-authored) paper ""The Extended Mind" was rejected by J Phil, Phil Review, and Mind before it was finally accepted by Analysis (three years later)." TEM was published in 1998. So, I decided to compare the editorial performan...
Just a detail, but I think that rejection rates are about ~90% in the best journals in psychology (Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Review), medicine (NEJM, JAMA), and economics (AER). I expect the rejection rates are even higher at Science and Nature.
Commented Jul 14, 2013 on So, how did Analysis stack up against Phil Review / JPhi / Mind (1995-8)? at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
So, how did Analysis stack up against Phil Review / JPhi / Mind (1995-8)?
In comments, David Chalmers generously acknowledged that his famous (co-authored) paper ""The Extended Mind" was rejected by J Phil, Phil Review, and Mind before it was finally accepted by Analysis (three years later)." TEM was published in 1998. So, I decided to compare the editorial performan...
We are joining the Inequalities blog
Paul Kelleher and I have decided to join Brendan Saloner, Ben Baumburg, and many other brilliant bloggers at Inequalities: Research and Reflection from both sides of the Atlantic. There may be an occasional post here at Something Not Unlike Research, but we expect to be principally blogging at Inequalities. From... Continue reading
Posted Aug 24, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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Medication and the hidden structure of experience
Posted Aug 17, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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Seven-fold increase in antipsychotic prescriptions to children and youths
Posted Aug 10, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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On Chris Hayes's reformation
post by Bill Gardner I have just finished Chris Hayes's Twilight of the Elites. It's great. The only possible disappointment is the title: Be aware that it is not a paranormal romance about aristocrat vampires. Here is a summary of the argument, from an excellent review by Aaron Swartz at... Continue reading
Posted Aug 6, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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Concentrated Medical Spending, Accountable Care Organizations, & Outcomes Measurement
Posted Aug 2, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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Alex Tabarrok on Economic Mobility
post by Bill Gardner Tabarrok is interested in the moral significance, if any, of economic mobility. He first contrasts two societies, "Stasis" and "Churn". In society one there is no generational mobility, each generation has the same income as the previous generation. Let’s call this society Stasis. Society Stasis Family... Continue reading
Posted Jul 30, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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Taking death panels seriously
Decisions about Medicaid coverage are life and death decisions for human beings. We are rationing health care, we have always rationed health care, and the forthcoming decisions by the states about whether to expand Medicaid will be decisions about rationing health care. Continue reading
Posted Jul 24, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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Thinking about the cost of global warming: Getting beyond GDP
post by Bill Gardner Preventing (or mitigating) global warming is going to be expensive. But how much should we spend on prevention, and when? To answer that question it seems natural to first estimate how much global warming will cost. But to do that, we have to define a measure... Continue reading
Posted Jul 23, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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Silence on global warming
post by Bill Gardner @baratunde yesterday: So we've all just decided not to do anything about global warming, right? I just wanna make sure. The discussion of global warming in the US seems to have disappeared. Why? There appears to be no short-term option for policy action. 1) You cannot... Continue reading
Posted Jul 22, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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Making outcomes more equal can advance equality of opportunity
post by Bill Gardner Paul and I have written recently about two different ways of understanding egalitarianism: equality of outcomes and equality of opportunity. Americans may be more sympathetic to the ideal of equal opportunity than equal outcomes. For example, Larry Summers: Perhaps the debate and policy focus needs to... Continue reading
Posted Jul 19, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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Medicaid as if the people in the system mattered
post by Bill Gardner Tyler Cowen wrote about the future of Medicaid in last Sunday's New York Times.1 He pointed out several problems -- albeit some are arguable -- with Medicaid. He warned that Medicaid is likely to be heading for trouble because as the Medicaid expansion [built into the... Continue reading
Posted Jul 17, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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On equality of opportunities and equality of outcomes
Posted Jul 16, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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Should the US have 50 Medicares and Medicaids?
post by Bill Gardner Brendan Saloner has a great post about federalism and social policy. He discusses whether all Americans should have similar protection, or whether states should have increased discretion about devising a local safety net. The Republican Governors resisting Obamacare would, presumably prefer the latter. The director of... Continue reading
Posted Jul 13, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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What a fully market-driven health care system might look like
post by Bill Gardner I wrote a post yesterday that began from the premise that health care providers have a duty to provide emergency care, regardless of a person's ability to pay.1 However, it's not so clear that all health care providers know about this duty. From Tony Kennedy of... Continue reading
Posted Jul 12, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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Mandated insurance, cost-effectiveness, and the ethics of care
Tina Rulli, Zeke Emanuel, and David Wendler have an interesting piece in JAMA about the 'moral duty to purchase health care'. I will comment on their argument, and then argue that this obligation generates a correlative obligation of providers to supply efficient, affordable healthcare. Rulli argue that citizens have a... Continue reading
Posted Jul 11, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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David Brooks on the inequality of parental investment in children
David Brooks summarizes research from Robert Putnam (no link provided) showing that there is increasing inequality in the time and resources invested in upper class US children compared to lower class children: Over the last 40 years upper-income parents have increased the amount they spend on their kids’ enrichment activities,... Continue reading
Posted Jul 10, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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The peculiar idea that human nature is immutable
post by Bill Gardner Attention conservation notice: The following is, so far as I can tell, without evident policy significance. I had a twitter discussion yesterday with Avik Roy, who was kind enough to respond to my post here. Avik (@aviksaroy) is someone you should follow if you want to... Continue reading
Posted Jul 9, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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Are conservatives really happier than liberals?
post by Bill Gardner Arthur Brooks summarizes interesting psychological data on US political affiliation and subjective well-being. Scholars on both the left and right have studied this question extensively, and have reached a consensus that it is conservatives who possess the happiness edge. Many data sets show this. For example,... Continue reading
Posted Jul 8, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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On a sufficient level of health care
post by Bill Gardner Josh Barro (@jbarro) writes to defend a now famous post by Tyler Cowen (@tylercowen) that included the flamebait sentence, "We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.…" (my comment on Cowen is here). Barro writes, Cowen is... Continue reading
Posted Jul 7, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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Universal coverage first, or health care cost containment first?
post by Bill Gardner The lack of insurance coverage and the cost of health care are urgent problems that must be solved. Austin Frakt (@afrakt), Don Taylor (@donhtaylorjr), and Avik Roy (@aviksaroy) are debating whether it was correct to address the lack of health insurance coverage first as opposed to... Continue reading
Posted Jul 6, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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Am I my brother's insurer?
Posted Jul 5, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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Should blue state taxpayers subsidize red state Medicaid?
post by Bill Gardner The Supreme Court decided that states could refuse the accept the expansion of Medicaid that was legislated in the Affordable Care Act. Some red state governors are said to be considering such refusals. This is surprising, because Ezra Klein describes the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of... Continue reading
Posted Jul 3, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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Health Care Reform: 2012-06-28
post by Bill Gardner The Supreme Court has decided. After the ground stops shaking, stop and recollect the aims of health care reform: Improving the U.S. health care system requires simultaneous pursuit of three aims: improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing per capita costs... Continue reading
Posted Jun 28, 2012 at Something Not Unlike Research
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