When he put it all together, he ended up with a different conclusion from what you would get if you just read the abstracts. It was a completely novel piece of work that reviewed this whole evidence base at a level of thoroughness that had never been done before, came out with a conclusion that was different from what you naively would have thought, which concluded his best estimate is that, at current margins, we could cut incarceration and there would be no expected impact on crime. He did all that. Then, he started submitting it to journals. It’s gotten rejected from a large number of journals by now [laughter]. I mean starting with the most prestigious ones and then going to the less.…
Why doesn’t OpenPhil found a journal? Feels like they could say it’s the journal of last resort initially but it probably would pict up status, especially if it contained only true, useful and relevant things.
Why doesn’t OpenPhil found a journal? Feels like they could say it’s the journal of last resort initially but it probably would pict up status, especially if it contained only true, useful and relevant things.