Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay

Re:Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay by bigcohoneypot on Sunday January 12, 2020 @02:41PM (#22028673)

Sorry for being so dumb. Your answer just confused me. Is this standard for data something that is unique to social science? Or is this the same standard?

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Re:Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay by endothrowho333 on Sunday January 12, 2020 @04:24PM (#22029527)

See dmwallin's sibling comment for more info.

It's standard for all data, but must be enforced more strictly in social sciences where controlling for all variables (let alone knowing what they all are!) is impossible, and your correlations are more likely to be pure chance.

See: reproducibility crisis in social sciences

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