As an aside, I find it bizarre that Economics gets put at 9 - I think a review of what gets done in top econ journals would cause you to update that number down by at least 1. (It’s not usually very bad, but it’s often mostly useless.) And I think it’s clear that lots of Econ does, in fact, have a replication crisis. (But we’ll if see that is true as some of the newer replication projects actually come out with results.)
I guess I was thinking of 9⁄10 as a relatively low bar in the grand scheme of things (“pretty good”), and placing it so far from journalism (etc.) to express my low regard for the latter more so than my high regard for econ. But it sounds like it may belong lower on the scale regardless.
As an aside, I find it bizarre that Economics gets put at 9 - I think a review of what gets done in top econ journals would cause you to update that number down by at least 1. (It’s not usually very bad, but it’s often mostly useless.) And I think it’s clear that lots of Econ does, in fact, have a replication crisis. (But we’ll if see that is true as some of the newer replication projects actually come out with results.)
I guess I was thinking of 9⁄10 as a relatively low bar in the grand scheme of things (“pretty good”), and placing it so far from journalism (etc.) to express my low regard for the latter more so than my high regard for econ. But it sounds like it may belong lower on the scale regardless.