Uncontrolled
by Jim Manzi · first published 2012
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by Jim Manzi · first published 2012
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…thank you. Do you have any pointers to get started on this for someone whose last practice of scientific method was a middle-school science fair project? (Asking for a friend) I picked up the book "Uncontrolled" by Jim Manzi, which is ostensibly about this subject. Would love to hear any recommendations you picked up from learning about this material and applying it.
on “How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers” ↗…streets. However, Harcourt and Ludwig found that the tenants continued to commit crime at the same rate. Oh look, another controlled A/B experiment that fails to validate anything. > In his 2012 book Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society, Jim Manzi writes that of the randomized field trials conducted in criminology, only nuisance abatement per broken windows…
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