I know this guy's graphs (which I always love) aren't definitive 'proof' - don't control for all confounds, don't 'know' counterfactual etc.
Still though. If you're one of these people who still thinks 'masks help a little?' how do you look at his graphs and not get a stroke?
Still though. If you're one of these people who still thinks 'masks help a little?' how do you look at his graphs and not get a stroke?
https://twitter.com/ianmSC/status/1420486451783823360
Look, I was like you Smart People once. I was a 'masks might help?' person. I was a 'worth a shot?' person. But come ON. Where's the REAL-WORLD, EMPIRICAL indication that keeps you believing that these mandates do anything of *significance*?
Is the Smart position that they 'help' it's just that 'help' is so tiny you gotta delicately tease it out from 101 other variables using a STATA regression package?
Cuz if that's what it is, it's a bad policy! Period! Policies should have material effects not infinitesemal ones
Cuz if that's what it is, it's a bad policy! Period! Policies should have material effects not infinitesemal ones
This is ESPECIALLY true when the 'policy' isn't just some normal thing that government normally does like regulating electricity outlets or whatev, but instead is a power government DOESN'T NORMALLY HAVE like Ordering People To Wear A Mask. It should work! If it doesn't, stop!
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