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?
What’s the warranty?
The whole thing needs an asterisk: *Accuracy extra.
Graphic designers’ version.
…”If you have last year’s Stata release and want a .dta file it can open”…
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.
^ well, there is the command “saveold” but if you are more than one version behind, forget it…
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.
Here you go… The pricing chart for data people is here
This is interesting http://ropercenter.cornell.edu/general-social-survey/ given that you can download for free from GSS explorer and elsewhere.