The Supreme Court meets the fallacy of the one-sided bet

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2013-04-08

Summary:

Doug Hartmann writes (link from Jay Livingston): Justice Antonin Scalia’s comment in the Supreme Court hearings on the U.S. law defining marriage that “there’s considerable disagreement among sociologists as to what the consequences of raising a child in a single-sex family, whether that is harmful to the child or not.” Hartman argues that Scalia is [...]

Link:

http://andrewgelman.com/2013/04/08/the-supreme-court-meets-the-fallacy-of-the-one-sided-bet/

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Authors:

Andrew

Date tagged:

04/08/2013, 13:38

Date published:

04/08/2013, 10:10