Abstract
Garbarino, Slonim and Villeval (2018) describe a new method to calculate the probability distribution of the proportion of lies told in “coin flip” style experiments. I show that their estimates and confidence intervals are flawed. I demonstrate two better ways to estimate the probability distribution of what we really care about – the proportion of liars – and I provide R software to do this.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 255–268 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Journal of the Economic Science Association-JESA |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 13 Jun 2019 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2019 |