Around the Blogs, Vol. 93

1. Why social science research is so hard: The case of guns and violence. Part one, part two. (Maggie Koerth-Baker)

2. Important questions that are easy to not ask dept.: Which type of growth trajectory are you on? (Scott H. Young) And are there sudden jumps? (Ben Casnocha)

3. Brits probably shouldn't worry about the economic effects of immigration. (Tim Harford)

4. Self-reports underestimate BMIs in Ireland, too. (Economic Logician/David Madden)

5. Placebo effects in priming. (Christian Jarrett/Ulrich W. Weger & Stephen Loughnan) Will it replicate?