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You don’t think you can isolate variables and analyze effects? For example, you can’t study the opinions of people with high education who live in rural areas?
by bumby 4y ago
You don’t think you can isolate variables and analyze effects? For example, you can’t study the opinions of people with high education who live in rural areas?
- AdamJacobMuller 4y agoGroup A: College Educated + Urban Group B: College Educated + Rural Group C: No post-secondary + Urban Group D: No post-secondary + Rural Fairly simple analysis to do, and I suspect (as I think you do) that the trend will align with a split between A/D vs B/C not A/B vs C/D.
- bumby 4y agoNow do it for all the other confounding variables. This is why social science is hard and requires a lot of statistical analysis. I'm not making any claims one way or another. All I'm saying is knee-jerk assumptions based on a simplified mental model probably isn't a good idea unless you have the data to back it up. (Especially true on complex systems like human value systems).