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Sunday, March 31, 2013

Selection bias, anyone?

Posted on 4:54 AM by Unknown
Just when you think that everyone in the universe understands selection bias, you read a column like this one on late marriage by Ross Douthat, which deserves some sort of award for cramming the most selection-bias infested descriptive statistics interpreted in a causal way into a single newspaper column.

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