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#140 Classic episode – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn’t in decline

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Evaluating the Trustworthiness of Conflict Data

This chapter examines the reliability of the Correlates of War data set within political science research, emphasizing its Western-centric coding and the need for reevaluation. It highlights the scholarly contributions to the project while acknowledging the challenges posed by institutional inertia in expanding the data set.

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