My new piece is about lockdowns, shoddy science, and why it's so hard to know which specific COVID-19 intervention is the most effective at controlling spreadhttps://gidmk.medium.com/do-lockdowns-work-879e93803d67 …
I think any study that primarily uses modelling to answer a question could be defined as modelling research
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Hm...my economist's distinction might be that a theory-based prediction/simulation model could not inform us about causality between a policy and an outcome. A reduced-form regression model could, under a set of assumptions. Clearly, these assumptions don't hold for Ioannidis.
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Yes that's a fair point. I think I used the term modelling in the article more as a colloquial piece of language than a technical distinction. Makes more sense than "retrospective epidemiological study" imo
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