1. More journalists should have taken courses on stats and (maybe even more importantly!) causal inference. Everyone knows that "correlation != causation" in theory, but it's often much harder to understand and evaluate in specific cases in practice. https://twitter.com/jim_savage_/status/1272203228051013632 …
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2. Relatedly, even with training, carefully evaluating the plausibility of causal arguments made in academic research is hard! 3. That said, none of the above prevents willful misinterpretation.
2:51 PM - 14 Jun 2020
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