fluentmundo

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by fluentmundo 4y ago
"rarely includes any alternative model"? Did you read the piece? Here is the alternative model proposed by Skidelsky: "These deep methodological issues do not render economic knowledge utterly useless, Skidelsky suggests. But
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by fluentmundo 4y ago
Are you saying the article didn't mention global warming? You didn't read carefully enough. Climate is one of the things the author accuses the economist Diane Coyle of relegating to the "margin": "All the same, her
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by fluentmundo 5y ago
No idea where you got the notion that the author is Socrates-bashing or that the author “demands that we cannot ask questions.” The piece is so obviously a love letter to and defense of Socrates! You seem to have completely misread it. Th
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by fluentmundo 6y ago
> When you have no choice in the matter, where's the internal conflict? Uh.... this completely misunderstands like literally everything Sartre wrote, the point of which was that you ALWAYS have a choice.
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The Unfinished Project of Enlightenment(bostonreview.net)
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Waves in epidemiology: from data visualization to public health tool(bostonreview.net)
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“Can We Control Disease?” Peter Godfrey-Smith on “The Coming Plague”(bostonreview.net)
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On evidence and “good science” in Covid-19: Harvard epidemiologist weighs in(bostonreview.net)
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The Stakes of the 1619 Project: How Radical Was the American Revolution?(bostonreview.net)
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What Is Medicine For?(bostonreview.net)
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Loving Latin at the End of the World(bostonreview.net)
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by fluentmundo 7y ago
Of course it is part of the explanation. That administrative overhead — the bureaucratic army it pays for and marshals as a lobbying and negotiating tool — encourages hospital monopolization, which gives providers greater bargaining power,
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by fluentmundo 7y ago
The author doesn't say that's the whole issue. He also says the private system drives hospital consolidation, which in turn gives them higher bargaining power to demand higher prices. My point was, OP is wrong that the author &quo
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by fluentmundo 7y ago
a) You must not have read the piece: "the bills are high because of who is paying them"; "insurance companies spend some eighteen cents for every dollar they collect in premiums on administration costs: 'marketing, deter
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What Atul Gawande Got Wrong about U.S. Health Care Spending(bostonreview.net)
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The Future of Political Philosophy After John Rawls and Liberal Egalitarianism(bostonreview.net)
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by fluentmundo 7y ago
No, I am not mistaken; you are confused. And your confusion is very pervasive in the technical community. You're not talking about randomization in general when you speak of a "treatment regime." You're talking about ran
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by fluentmundo 7y ago
But it's not a limitation of the tool (the tool does provide gold-standard evidence); it's the stupidity of the researcher using the tool. (The tool works perfectly well and does, in fact, constitute the gold standard of causal
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by fluentmundo 7y ago
>> Randomisation is a major part of traditional stats, and it is inherently a causal hypothesis Yes, randomization is central to classical statistics, but no, it is not inherently causal. Drawing a random sample from a bivariate distr
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by fluentmundo 7y ago
A nice point. But this is not a criticism of the RCT so much as a criticism of how its results are used or interpreted.
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A Philosopher Reviews Judea Pearl's “The Book of Why”(bostonreview.net)
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