[lbo-talk] Re: Ralph Nader, Suicide Bomber

[John Adams]

On Thursday, May 6, 2004, at 10:37 AM, Miles Jackson wrote:

> No, they're not experiments.  In an experiment, you manipulate the
> causal factor (indepedent variable) and assess the change in another
> factor.  They are interesting econ data, but they're not
> experimental data.

Really? So when you apply a varied set of pricing changes over time 
across a chain of few hundred stores on an item or a set of items 
throughout your chain and see how the sales of these and substitute 
commodities respond, you aren't experimenting (among other things)?

All the best,

	John A