Lumifer comments on Be Skeptical of Correlational Studies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 21 November 2013 10:16:25PM 1 point [-]

Not much. I've read a bunch of papers and some critiques... And I'm talking not so much about the methods as about the published claims and conclusions. Sophisticated methods are fine, the issue is their fragility. And, of course, you can't correct for what you don't know.