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Re:Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again... by darthoctopus on Friday February 16, 2024 @01:48PM (#39401280)
> Fears that the experiment would engender laziness in participants were not borne out in the project’s findings: “The ‘laziness’ contention is just not supported by our findings,” the chief data analyst of one of the experiments said. “There is not anywhere near the mass defection the prophets of doom predicted.”
Re:Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again... by jsbg on Friday February 16, 2024 @01:53PM (#39401369)
why are the results of a study with a limited reach preferable to the results of an actual universal real world event?
Re:Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again... by NoraCodes on Friday February 16, 2024 @06:04PM (#39404209)
There is no control available; we don't have a second population of people who did go through the beginning of the COVID pandemic, 2020 political environment, and so forth, but did not receive the stimulus package.

I suggest looking into some basic experimental design texts if you're interested in why this is so important!

Re:Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again... by monero-xmr on Friday February 16, 2024 @01:50PM (#39401322)
We already did the experiment, across the whole country!
Re:Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again... by Acebulf on Friday February 16, 2024 @01:58PM (#39401436)
Yeah, and correlation isn't causality. Causal studies under controlled conditions don't back up what you're saying.