Re: st: A vvvvvery naive question about "controll for"

[Chris Kopp <kopp@soz.unibe.ch>]

"Control for" in the social science lingo refers to the statistical  
model and not to the real world.

hth, Chris

On Oct 15, 2005, at 19:33, Sean wrote:


> absurd conclusion that physicists should learn from social scientists:
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