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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Replying to @eigenrobot
Are u talking about Robin Hanson? He's got like a series of blog posts on smoking where he shows the case isn't that strong in terms of just the studies
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Replying to @BalkanizerBlog
oooh! That's interesting It was not Robin Hanson He's more field famous than Internet famous
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