Users of Economics Job Market Rumors, known for its toxic content, include individuals at top-tier colleges and universities, including Harvard, Stanford and the University of Chicago, and many oth…
Some economists have long condemned the website, Economics Job Market Rumors, for its toxic content.
Yet the new research indicates that users of the website include individuals at top-tier colleges and universities, including Harvard, Stanford and the University of Chicago, and many others. “It’s not just a few bad apples,” Ederer said in a presentation Thursday at a conference sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass. “It’s very, very widespread. And the toxicity is widespread.”on social media among economists about privacy, free speech and online abuse.
Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Goldsmith-Pinkham sought to dispel those concerns, saying the group does not plan on “releasing anything identifying” individuals.That was far more than the 100 or so who watched other NBER presentations the same day, suggesting widespread interest in the topic among academic economists.
The researchers used publicly available data to determine the internet addresses for about two-thirds of the more than 7 million posts that have been made on the site since 2010.These posts included the use of racial slurs and assertions that women have smaller brains than men.
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