An auto-mechanic-style sign for data sharing

Yesterday’s story reminds me of that sign you used to see at the car repair shop.

Maybe we need something similar for data access rules:

DATA RATES PER HOUR

If you want to write a press release for us        $   50.00
If you want to write a new paper using our data    $   90.00
If you might be questioning our results            $  450.00*
If you're calling from Retraction Watch            $30000.00

* Default rate unless you can convince us otherwise

Whaddya think? Anyone interested in adding a couple more jokes and formatting it poster style with some cute graphic?

9 thoughts on “An auto-mechanic-style sign for data sharing

    • Oh my G-d… the worst part is my RA’s all have the newest version, and then I wanna go and mess around with a dataset they set up for me and… pure disappointment.

        • Saveold works great… whenever your student/RA/coauthor/colleague gets back in the office/city/country. I need to just upgrade my StatTransfer, but somehow every time I get hit with the Stata version problem I’m re-surprised and re-aggravated.

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