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• Why Do Countries Become/Remain Democracies? Or Don’t? (2): Education and Prosperity

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 504
  (This is a follow-up from a previous post ). There aren’t many questions in political science that are more important than this one: which are the factors that determine whether a country becomes or doesn’t become a democracy, and that determine the degree to which a country is democratic. There are two reasons ...
  3 days ago

• An Optimistic View of Taliban Pay

  
  The Perfect Substitute — Authority: 129
  CNN : "There is no set pay scale, but by our intelligence, they are paying the equivalent of about $300 a month and that is higher than we are paying Afghan army or police," McChrystal told the Senate Armed Services Committee, where he testified on Tuesday. [...] "In coordination with the Afghan government, we just ...
  1 week ago

• On Causality in Economics

  
  Undergraduate Economist — Authority: 91
  This post tries to unsettle some of the methods used in economics today – Regression analysis and Granger causality. Apart from this objective, the post also tries to understand the meaning (rather, meanings) of causality. Do we economists mistake correlation for causality? Can we have a single method for capturing ...
  1 week ago

• Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics (24): Mistakes in the Direction of Causation

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 504
  Time for a more lighthearted post in this blog series . Suppose you find a correlation between two phenomena. And you’re tempted to conclude that there’s a causal relation as well . The problem is that this causal relation – if it exists at all – can go either way. It’s a common mistake – or fraud – to ...
  1 week ago

• How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Counterfactuals – Daniel Westreich

  
  Ignite Seattle! — Authority: 114
  When looking at data regarding Web site user behavior or in Daniel Westreich’s case, epidemiology, we have to be remember that correlation does not imply causation . That is, just because two events were observed close together in time, it is false to assume that one caused the other. Causal inference is hard. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Grandfather paradox

  
  Alexander Pruss's Blog — Authority: 508
  Suppose I went back in time and tried to shoot my grandfather before my father was conceived. Then either I would hit or I would miss. If I hit, absurdity results. What is less discussed in the literature is that if I miss, absurdity also results. Suppose that I miss due to sloppy aiming. (This is the case most ...
  2 weeks ago

• Deep Thoughts XXV

  
  Alexander Pruss's Blog — Authority: 508
  Every effect has a cause. [Cf. Deep Thought VI .]
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• Levi Apparently Has Never Read Harman’s Theory of Causation

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 421
  Who Is Taking Harman’s Theory Seriously? Levi writes in defense of Harman’s so-called Theory of Vicarious  Causation, after summoning the authority of the Principle of Charity a principle by whose force he tells me that I must assume that Harman actually knows what he is talking about when he proposes a ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Evidence of Climate Fraud

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  A folder containing documents, data and emails purportedly "hacked" from Britains Climate Research Unit (CRU) may be smoking gun proof of a worldwide conspiracy to exaggerate the existence, causation and threat of global warming.  And the list of apparent conspirators includes many of the worlds leading climate ...
  3 weeks ago

• Definitive Report on Status of Motorcycle Safety Study

  
  http://motorcyclecolorado.com/blog — Authority: 114
  I went to the sources and can now give you the full scoop on the status of the Motorcycle Crash Causation Study. I had reported earlier that the Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF) was withholding the $2.8 million its members had committed because the reduced size of the study–due to lack of money–would not ...
  3 weeks ago

• Homeostasis Model of Autism Causation - Is Autism Triggered By Glutamite and Glycine Imbalance?

  
  Facing Autism in New Brunswick — Authority: 493
  In a press release from PR Newswire, a New Jersey based business oriented think tank, The Center for Modeling Optimal Outcomes® LLC, outlines what it believes is a model of autism causation discovered while researching neuroscientific principles in business. The think tank members themselves are not ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sensual Head-Scratching Continues.

  
  Perverse Egalitarianism — Authority: 426
  Bryant finally raises some interesting questions concerning Harman’s theory of causation. Harman responds and I think this is where we are going to see if there’s any genuine engagement or it’s all just for show, because Harman does not really address Bryant’s question – I mean he goes on and on about the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Harman’s Object Disorientation: Anthropomorphism At Large

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 421
  The Unfinished Harman Theory of Causation [click on picture for larger image] Another Derrida? Coincidently, what Harman thinks of Derrida: “Personally, I never had much time for Derrida, and see him instead as a self-indulgent wanker adrift in a sea of signs and boring high-culture collage.” The ...
  4 weeks ago

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