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Re:Supply Constraints Do Not Explain House Price, Quantity G... by kelseyfrog on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @11:43AM (#43413514)
Can you help me understand your argument. It seems to hinge on the idea the existence of a counter-example proves it wrong? I could see how this would work for a logical argument or a proof, but I'm finding it difficult to see how it fits into proving ultimately a statistical finding incorrect. I generally see statistics as being able to tease apart situations where there are counter-examples and we're looking at things like proportions between categories and such.
Re:Supply Constraints Do Not Explain House Price, Quantity G... by pj_mukh on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @01:16PM (#43414727)
Yea which is why I started with “hate to use this argument”. Definitely anecdotal but the kernel of truth is that income and rent going up could be a correlation with a different causation and as many have pointed out in this thread the paper inadequately controls for this.

This is especially dangerous now as papers can be used as hard truths in a misinfo driven information culture to see policy.