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by p1necone 1106 days ago
This is a very important thing to consider when interpreting this statistic.

"Heart attack rates go up 24% after daylight savings changes" is not the same thing as "There are 24% more heart attacks due to daylight savings". You can't really know the weight of magnitude vs distribution without actually stopping daylight savings.

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or by conducting some causal inference with a load of identification assumptions