I once TA'd an econometrics class for a fairly famous econometrician He pointed out to the students at one point that all of the studies linking cigarettes and cancer were correlational and just let it hang there for twenty seconds of uncomfortable silence before moving on
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He wasn't trying to make any obvious claim, and he didn't give any clue to what he meant to imply The effect was just to instill in students barely capable of running OLS in Stata, much less interpreting it, a sense of deep epistemic Dread I respect that and I hope it stuck
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noble to approach episteme without dread is some real cowboy ass bullshit
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