Now here’s a tour de force for ya | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
In social science, we’ ll study some topic, then move on to the next thing. For example, Yotam and I did this project on social penumbras and political attitudes, we designed a study, collected data, analyzed the data, wrote it up, eventually it was published — the whole thing took years! and we were very happy with the results — and then we moved on. The idea is that other people will pick up the string. There were lots of little concerns, issues of measurement, causal identification, generalization,