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Lars Pålsson Syll
Professor at Malmö University. Primary research interest - the philosophy, history and methodology of economics.

Lars P. Syll

RCT — a questionable claim of establishing causality

RCT — a questionable claim of establishing causality The ideal RCT is the special case in which the trial’s treatment status is also assigned randomly (in addition to drawing random samples from the two populations, one treated and one not) and the only error is due to sampling variability … In this special case, as the number of trials increases, the mean of the trial estimates tends to get closer to the true mean impact. This is the sense in which an...

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Econometrics — science based on unwarranted assumptions

Econometrics — science based on unwarranted assumptions There is first of all the central question of methodology — the logic of applying the method of multiple correlation to unanalysed economic material, which we know to be non-homogeneous through time. If we are dealing with the action of numerically measurable, independent forces, adequately analysed so that we were dealing with independent atomic factors and between them completely comprehensive,...

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Die Impfentscheidung als rein individuelle Entscheidung

Die Impfentscheidung als rein individuelle Entscheidung Gestern — in der ZDF-Talkshow “Markus Lanz” — bekannte Sarah Wagenknecht das Sie habe “Bedenken” und sich vorerst gegen eine Corona-Impfung entschieden. Ich finde diese Einstellung sehr enttäuschend. Impfen oder nicht impfen ist nicht nur eine Frage für Einzelpersonen, da Ihre Impfung auch andere schützt, Frau Wagenknecht! [embedded content]

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