Erdogan believes that a rate rise would actually fuel Turkish inflation (contrary to conventional economic wisdom, and evidence).
I didn't realize it, but just before my lament over the imperviousness of conventional wisdom to evidence, Simon Wren-Lewis made a similar point, but more broadly.
It is certainly greater than the wisdom in evidence in Washington today.
The Guttmacher Institute in a new report, "Countering Conventional Wisdom: New Evidence on Religion and Contraceptive Use" showed that, "among all women who have had sex, 99percentt have ever used a contraceptive method other than natural family planning" Are married women who use birth control sluts in Rush's world view?
Often planning assumptions in health care facilities of most low and middle income countries including India, are based on conventional wisdom than evidence (8).
"Received wisdom trumps studies, evidence and metrics… We have little valid evidence that our tactics actually work".
I wonder whether the proliferation of the bubble blogs signifies something else: the concentration of conventional wisdom, which is evidence that the conventional wisdom is wrong.
He has examined levels of taxes, public investment in education, transportation and health care, and social transfers like Social Security, and finds a stark contradiction between conventional wisdom and the evidence.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the economic evidence appears to show that countries can be corrupt and successful at the same time.
However, the Medical Research Council (MRC), who were the main funding agency, decided to convene an Independent International Committee to review the WHI findings, the progress of WISDOM and other evidence.
