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> study must fork the universe to compare the same business with different timeline Unfortunately, that might be what's necessary to know. I am not knocking th
by starcraft2wol 3y ago
> study must fork the universe to compare the same business with different timeline
Unfortunately, that might be what's necessary to know. I am not knocking the research quality, but there are limits on what we can conclude, and obviously other important factors have not been sufficiently isolated.
- verteu 3y agoBy this standard, should we not believe that smoking causes lung cancer? After all, a controlled experiment on humans has never been done.
- starcraft2wol 3y agoThose studies aren't similar in methodology or subject at all. Can you acknowledge there are unmeasured social factors at play in this simple survey analysis, or not? If so, I'm happy to speculate about the epistemology of tobacco studies.
- verteu 3y ago> Those studies aren't similar in methodology or subject at all. They both used observational health data to create a causal conclusion on mortality. How is that not a similarity in methodology?