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Reed makes sense but wtf does economics have to do with it?
Econometrics has basically taken over for statistics in a lot of social sciences, for some reason. You rarely see a social scientist team up with a statistician - they team up with an economist, and they apply econometrics to whatever it is they are studying.
There could be a couple of reasons. Economists might be perceived as having a better understanding of "the real world", as they are used to building predictive models around real world societal affairs, which is not really the job description of a statistician. Alternatively, it could be because they themselves are social scientists more than mathematicians, and they therefore "speak the language" of social sciences and are capable of interdisciplinary co-operation.
I think it's a problem. More social scientists should learn to think critically of their methods and to do their own empirical research.
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