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171. Measuring Pollution on Parallel Earths | People I (Mostly) Admire
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Natural experiments are necessary when randomized controlled trials are not possible for answering deep policy questions.
“We can answer like a question that's super adjacent to the most interesting question, but it doesn't let us answer the question that we really need to know.”
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