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P-hacking, Reproducibility & the Nobel Prize: Guido Imbens (#269)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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How Can We Find Comparisons That Really Work?

People who serve in the military are different for people who don't, says Dr. Richard Vedder. The first step was to go back to the Vietnam War when there was a military draft and kind of realized that because the draft was implemented through a lottery, then we get two groups that are comparable just like in a randomized experiment. These groups are not identical but they're comparable exantee because of the randomization.

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