Out of nowhere-at least I'd never heard of him-comes a posting by one David Burge on his blog, Iowahawk, in which he tore Krugman's numbers apart. I don't mean he found some soft spots. I'm talking evisceration. The post has been flying around cyberspace and has a attracted a lot of flak to which Burge has now responded.I recommend both posts as tours de force on two levels. First, they are saturated with the best kind of Internet irreverence and humor-sophomoric occasionally, lmao funny more often. Second, the guy is a hell of an applied statistician.
It's wonderful: Paul Krugman's got his mile-high New York Times platform, Burge has an obscure blog. And yet, in the world of the Internet, he can take Krugman down and end up letting a whole lot of people know he's done it.
[Why I Love the Internet and Am Proud to Be from Iowa « The Enterprise Blog, March 7, 2011]