Wrong numbers and why they survive, with Aaron Brown
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Episode: Wrong numbers and why they survive, with Aaron Brown
Pub date: 2026-05-14
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Patrick McKenzie (patio11) is joined by Aaron Brown, author of Wrong Number, to examine why institutions that produce bad statistics face so few consequences for doing so. They trace the pattern from Aaron's 1975 summer job, where two credentialed experts confidently produced opposite conclusions about whether American tractors…
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