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Regression to the mean makes useless interventions look like they worked
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What a study can and cannot tell you, and how to weigh one.
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What a control group is actually for
A comparison group exists to answer one question — what would have happened anyway — and almost every weak study is weak because it cannot answer it.
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Before you call it causation, three other explanations have to fail
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Why a shelf of famous psychology findings quietly stopped being true
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Analysis has too many degrees of freedom, which is why preregistration exists
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A prediction that cannot be scored was never a prediction
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When two experts disagree, the disagreement is the information
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A single number is a claim about precision it usually cannot support
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Every finding comes attached to the people it was found in
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The thing being measured is rarely the thing anyone cares about
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A natural experiment borrows its randomness from circumstance
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A single story is evidence of possibility, not of frequency
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