3 ms·
Agreed, this seems like they chose a hypothesis destined to be forever unprovable. > they used the same data to independently test the same prominent social sc
by macintux 4y ago
Agreed, this seems like they chose a hypothesis destined to be forever unprovable.
> they used the same data to independently test the same prominent social science hypothesis: that greater immigration reduces support for social policies among the public.
- et1337 4y agoTheir chosen hypothesis doesn’t seem any more unprovable than the countless other “study says” headlines I see every day, even here on HN.
- scotty79 4y agoThe fact that they got different numerical results from the same data and the difference wasn't explained by the choice of statistical tools the applied us very concering. I interpret it to mean that different researchers applied same math to same data and got different results.