Re: The Physics Behind the Spanish Blackout

On Mon, 9 Jun 2025, Joe Gwinn wrote:
"[. . .]
I learned about the financial world by marrying into it - my wife was
a Muni bond portfolio manager.  I read some of her tutorials, and was
stunned to learn that while the stock market got all the news media
attention, the Muni market was in fact ten times larger."
Dear Joe Gwinn:
Thanks for this remarkable example that media attention is not correlated with correctness or importance. Cf. "Type-I errors are correlated with citations."
Paul Colin de Gloucester (2013): "Referees Often Miss Obvious Errors in Computer and Electronic Publications", "Accountability in Research: Policies and Quality Assurance", 20:3, 143-166,
https://WWW.TAndFOnLine.com/doi/full/10.1080/08989621.2013.788379