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@jd_wilko 1/n It is not really "provocative", just a gentle way of luring statisticians to cut the umbilical chord from Mother Stat. Instead of surgical do-operator, you condition on a variable F (force) which does the surgery for you. I used it in 1993 ucla.in/2pJqtW3 when
@jd_wilko 2/n I thought that statistician are not prepared for a surgery. Other researchers, too, labor to create the illusion of remaining in the stat-womb. E.g., Heckman etal created a fix-operator to enforce this illusion ucla.in/2L8OCyl. The folks at @harvardEpi still teach CI
@jd_wilko @HarvardEpi 3/3 by "imitating RCT's". It is a tough umbilical chord to cut. Denis Lindley was the only statistician I met who said: CUT! In all these schemes we still need to import information from outside the data, which is the key to realizing that we are out of the stat-womb. #Bookofwhy
