What RCTs can and cannot tell us

Created
Fri, 05/05/2023 - 17:54
Updated
Fri, 05/05/2023 - 17:54
Unfortunately, social sciences’ hope that we can control simultaneously for a range of factors like education, labor force attachment, discrimination, and others is simply more wishful thinking. The problem is that the causal relations underlying such associations are so complex and so irregular that the mechanical process of regression analysis has no hope of unpacking […]