How to be a social scientist.
1) Find some regional difference (Eastern Europe lower covid death rate)
2) Think of something else associated with that region (high WWII death count)
3) Make up a story about how 2 causes 1
nber.org/papers/w28291#…
1) Find some regional difference (Eastern Europe lower covid death rate)
2) Think of something else associated with that region (high WWII death count)
3) Make up a story about how 2 causes 1
nber.org/papers/w28291#…
Despite the lesson of WWII lasting 75 years, and being transferred from wartime to pandemic response, the advantage gained from WWII deaths is forgotten in the few months between the first and second wave.
You probably could've done this study with case inflection in languages.
You probably could've done this study with case inflection in languages.
Makes your job easier when you can "control" for random things in the world. Includes something called "voice and accountability." What about Ottoman Rule and history of fighting wars against Muslims? Maybe that creates solidarity? WWI deaths?
I should correct myself. You can't just "make up a story." You also have to draw a bunch of mathematical equations. That's the secret sauce that makes it into "science." Now you're doing the same thing as Issac Newton.
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