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I'm quite familiar with causal analysis [1]. What are your qualifications in the field? The paper performs half a dozen standard robustness checks [2]. Which
by verteu 3y ago
I'm quite familiar with causal analysis [1]. What are your qualifications in the field?
The paper performs half a dozen standard robustness checks [2]. Which exactly do you believe are missing? Be specific, and include reasons why we should reasonably expect the opposite outcome.
[1] Senior ML Researcher @ Google, top 3 PhD, etc.
[2] Placebo analysis, instrumental variables, MTE analysis,
breaking down the effect into plausible mechanisms such as reduction in front-line staffing, limiting results to nursing homes owned by the same chain, etc
edit: Instead of linking random surveys on causal inference, please make a specific claim, such as "the authors should have used propensity scoring", or "causal inference studies should all be ignored." Otherwise, there's no way to have a debate.
- starcraft2wol 3y agoThat's nice of you to list where you work. On HN there are many qualified and intelligent people, so we generally prefer to talk about the issues directly. > half a dozen standard robustness checks My original comment isn't arguing they used tools improperly, it's an epistemology argument. It's about the limitations of what information could even be gathered from this kind of study.
- verteu 3y agoThis was a reply to cscurmudgeon's objection, not yours. (You can tell because my comment is a reply to his comment.)
- wpietri 3y agoI think it's hilarious that somebody who has been here for all of 11 days wants to tell somebody who is coming up on their 10-year HNiversary what "we generally prefer".
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- starcraft2wol 3y agoI'll let you figure that one out on your own.
- wpietri 3y agoOh, I did. I figure it means you're the kind of person who knows he's going to be a dick but wants to do it under a disposable identity to as not to harm his score. So you're not just a jerk, but a calculated jerk.
- worik 3y ago> I'm quite familiar with causal analysis [1]. What are your qualifications in the field? That is nonsense. This is not a pissing contest about qualifications, or a contest cherry picking research. It is a rolling catastrophe - decades in the making - for USA people. In general it is that money is being transferred in industrial quantities from everybody to the very rich. Specifically money is getting sucked out of the health system for the benefit of a few at the cost of the many. FFS socialise your medical system. Spread the cost like sane people and drive out the greed heads If you can send a rocket to the moon.....
- anigbrowl 3y agoYou should have read back up the thread, and see who turned it into a pissing contest and ended up distracting from the moral and ethical arguments by vague quibbling about the methodology.
- worik 3y ago> and see who turned it into a pissing contest Not relevant to anything
- verteu 3y agoAgreed! I only mentioned it because "curmudgeon" chose an ad-hominem argument in lieu of a concrete criticism of the methodology.