Reciprocating Bill
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A bit more on DaveScot's citation vis mental health and party affiliation.
It was just a week ago that DaveScot was deriding the use of correlational methods within social science research as junk science:
| Quote | | But no, the researchers in fact did nothing at all to discriminate between cause and symptom and it’s obvious in seconds to even a casual observer such as myself that the study and its conclusions are flawed. Where was the peer review that should have prevented this junk science from reaching the pages of the Journal of Clinical Psychology without correction of obvious flaws?....Correlation does not equal causation and this simple rule of scientific inquiry is very often set aside when there are political or financial incentives that make one finding preferable to another.* |
Of course, the relationship reported via Dave's post today vis party affiliation is purely correlational (the foundation of regression).
Yay, Dave! Way to excoriate a technique one day and kiss on it the next. Perhaps that has to do with "political or financial incentives."
Or maybe yer a genius!
*The bolded sentence following the elipsis is found in the comments.
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