Your Standard Errors are Wrong (The Effect, Videos on Causality, Ep 33)

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The Effect is a book about research design and causal inference. How can we use data to learn about the world? How can we answer questions about whether X causes Y even if we can't run a randomized experiment? The book covers these things and plenty more. These videos are meant to accompany the book, although they can also be viewed on their own.

This video relates to material found in Chapter 13 of the book.

A version of this video without background music can be found here:    • Your Standard Errors are Wrong (The E...  

Standard errors don't just fall from the sky - they're our estimate of what the standard deviation of the sampling distribution is. And we have to make some assumptions in the process of doing those estimations. What can go wrong? And what can we do if (when) it does?