Study's conclusions are implausible

Making the Implausible Plausible

Whenever we must evaluate a theory, consider an excuse, or appraise a situation, we must judge how plausible things appear to us. In short, plausibility judgement occupies a central position in human cognitive life. Recently, it has been shown that the plausibility of a scenario depends on how its events can be connected (Connell & Keane, in press). In this paper, two experiments examine how a ...

Implausible diseases and public health.

The BMJ published in 2006 a paper introducing a new pathology: the motivational deficiency disorder. This time, it was an April fool’s day joke, so humanity escaped a new condition (perhaps a pandemic . . .). However, there are many papers, not published on 1 April, which present other novel diseases, from irritable bowel syndrome to social phobia, male baldness, restless legs and all the like....

"Waves of Edema" Seem Implausible.

Flawed analysis, implausible results--move on.

Implausible Equilibrium Solutions in Economics and Finance

Models that admit only equilibrium solutions are prevalent in neoclassical economics and modern finance. Such solutions lack path dependence and evolve only in reaction to exogenous changes but, worryingly, the stability of these solutions and the nature of any non-equilibrium alternatives are rarely considered. We describe how such equilibrium solutions, and the modeling assumptions underpinni...