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Migration and unemployment<\/a> File under ‘correlation is not causation’. And ‘endogeneity’. And ‘instrumental variables that do not make sense’.<\/em><\/p>\n

Equitable decision making has intrinsic value<\/a>\u00a0Apparently<\/em>,there is a region in the brain [anterior insula] ‘linked to the experience of subjective disutility’. Ah,\u00a0the prospects for utility maximization!<\/em><\/p>\n

Fukuyama on European identities<\/a>\u00a0Surfing on the obvious<\/em><\/p>\n

A post on the philosophy of explanation at Understanding Society<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Migration and unemployment File under ‘correlation is not causation’. And ‘endogeneity’. And ‘instrumental variables that do not make sense’. Equitable decision making has intrinsic value\u00a0Apparently,there is a region in the brain [anterior insula] ‘linked to the experience of subjective disutility’. Ah,\u00a0the prospects for utility maximization! Fukuyama on European identities\u00a0Surfing on the obvious A post on the philosophy of explanation at Understanding Society<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[68,226,246,280,412,473,624],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g3hj-3I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":526,"url":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=526","url_meta":{"origin":230,"position":0},"title":"Correlation does not imply causation. Then what does it imply?","date":"October 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"'Correlation does not imply causation' is an adage students\u00a0from all social sciences are made to recite from a very\u00a0early age. 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