{"id":7383,"date":"2012-09-25T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=7383"},"modified":"2012-09-23T09:58:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T13:58:51","slug":"openness-or-reason-353-why-i-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/7383","title":{"rendered":"Openness, or: Reason #353 Why I Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Gelman nicely summarizes an important reason why he blogs &#8212; and, incidentally, why I blog, too:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">2. Openness: In a blog I can write about the limitations of my work. It\u2019s a real challenge to discuss limitations in a scholarly article, as we\u2019re always looking over our shoulder at what referees might think. Sure, sometimes I can get away with\u00a0writing\u00a0\u201cSurvey weighting is a mess,\u201d but my impression is that most scholarly articles are relentlessly upbeat. Sort of like how a magazine article typically will have a theme and just plug it over and over. In a blog we can more easily admit uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>More <a title=\"Speaking Frankly\" href=\"http:\/\/andrewgelman.com\/2012\/09\/speaking-frankly\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I feel as though that reason is especially important in <del>economics<\/del> the social sciences, where one&#8217;s salesmanship is often what makes or break one&#8217;s papers owing to the fact that readers often make up their minds about the quality of a paper before they reach the end of the introduction. In the sciences, articles are much shorter, and there is a sense that no article is perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Gelman nicely summarizes an important reason why he blogs &#8212; and, incidentally, why I blog, too: 2. Openness: In a blog I can write&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/7383\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Openness, or: Reason #353 Why I Blog<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-commentary","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-1V5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7383"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7391,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions\/7391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}