tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post661212030592008113..comments2024-02-29T03:57:00.088-05:00Comments on The Mermaid's Tale: Collecting data is easy; making sense of it is notAnne Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-22943288351051907492013-09-04T16:00:43.261-04:002013-09-04T16:00:43.261-04:00You could be right. And the point should have bee...You could be right. And the point should have been clearer that we meant conditional on a recovered economy! Anne Buchananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-69402890205267636282013-09-04T15:54:32.856-04:002013-09-04T15:54:32.856-04:00I agree with your entire post except one tiny part...I agree with your entire post except one tiny part -<br /><br />"technology costs may have plummeted and this could be more affordable, given a recovered economy"<br /><br />US economy will never recover. The country is following the same course as Netherland did after 1650.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_the_Netherlands_(1500%E2%80%931815)#Zenith_in_1650sManoj Samantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04264467983614167240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-67991717156836157202013-09-04T10:38:19.527-04:002013-09-04T10:38:19.527-04:00I want to add an afterword, to be clear. The Fram...I want to add an afterword, to be clear. The Framingham study may well have made major contributions, findings for its time that led to or sped up other findings. The issue to us, here, is that such big studies become perpetual and don't get phased out when they reach diminishing returns. The politics of continuing trump the political risks of termination.<br /><br />Framingham is just one of many, some much larger, such efforts that one could mention. So our comment was not aimed at this particular study, except as it serves as an example.Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.com