33 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 2 Oct \ parent \ on: When Data Is Missing, Scientists Guess. Then Guess Again science
Oh yeah I’m not really criticizing robustness checks.
If anything, the people who trust too much in the formal statistics deserve more criticism (imo). And I’m mainly referring to social science here as well.
I remember my office-mate going down a crazy rabbit hole trying to figure out exactly what the right standard error calculations should be for his job market paper. He probably spent a month obsessing over it and never did come to a definitive conclusion.
Probably no surprise, but each of the half dozen different approaches told pretty much the same story.
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