Perverse Incentives

[NOTE: This is a repost of a blog that Doug Campbell wrote for his blogsite at douglaslcampbell.blogspot.co.nz] Stephen Hsu has a nice blog post on this topic. He writes about this common pattern: (1) Study reports results which reinforce the dominant, politically correct, narrative. (2) Study is widely cited in other academic work, lionized in the popular press, and used to advance real world agendas.