--- Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
>
>
> I think it's important to keep in mind this is
> exactly the type of
> quasi-experimental research that has provided clear
> evidence that
> smoking causes health problems. True, if you do not
> control the
> independent variable (here, three strikes
> legislation), drawing
> causal conclusions is challenging. However,
> reasonable scientists
> often provide striking evidence of causality with
> carefully designed
> and analyzed quasi-experiments. We really don't
> know whether they
> controlled for the important confounds here until we
> read the
> research report.
>
> Miles
>
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