I think with genetics the causal case is something approximating open and shut
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Come on, you know better than that. Do you really need to go over the redhead example again?
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Replying to @eigenrobot @bechhof
if the argument is "hurr durr you can dye your hair red" yes you can and also (i) interventions on more-basal biological features tend to be well-understood to the point of triviality and (ii) knowledge of biological parameter space is vastly closer to complete than it is in econ
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oh nice yeah that's a tidy way of looking at it
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Replying to @eigenrobot
No it really isn’t. Read that Turkheimer post please.
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why dont you point out the specific error you think is being made that cripples the analysis like we learned in seminars instead of gesturing wildly at another paper
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Because I want you to read the piece. It isn’t just that the derivative is different; it’s an unestimable function of the whole environment space which can go all over the place.
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boy youre not going to like the entire body of all empirical work ever produced
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Replying to @eigenrobot
This is really hard to respond to without spewing lecture about causal inference.
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