By jmakeig
Great read and through approach. However, it’s worth noting that Uber provided the data for this study. I’d imagine they had an idea as to its conclusions before they provided it.
The findings are intuitive and validate that surge pricing is an overall good thing for the market.(Yea, microeconomics!) However, the cynic in me isn’t sure we’d have seen a study that didn’t come to that (positive) conclusion.
How does an agreement between an academic and a data provider work to prevent this sort of bias? (In the general case. I have no evidence of that in play here.)
See more about this article by clicking the link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10236265
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