17 thoughts on “Best blog comment ever

  1. Now you’ve got me thinking about how to procedurally generate troll comments. Could even build different ones for different kinds of troll!

  2. I was so excited to experience the “best blog comment ever,” and so disappointed when I read it. Seems like he speaks from a generalized animus towards scientific studies rather an insightful understanding of the issues in this particular study.

    • Yeah. Perhaps he was bitten by a sociologist when he was a lad. Certainly he has no concept of what scientists do, how they do it, and why society as a whole benefits.

  3. I much preferred this line, from the article itself:

    “it’s reasonable to consider the sex of one’s child as a randomly-assigned treatment”

    I’m sure my wife will be happy to hear that!

  4. This has been one of the most interesting aspects of the migration over to the WP — the Monkey Cage’s poli-sci inside baseball comments threads suddenly turned into this bizarre spectacle of diehard partisan comments-feed trolls struggling with coming face to face with reasoned academic discussion of evidence-based research. Probably enough for an interesting sociological study in there…

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