--- Seema Bhatia <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to be as non subjective as possible.
A more practical attitude is to start from the following questions:
o What do I want to know?
o What information do I need for that?
o What information do I have in my dataset?
o What information do I (need to) add using assumptions/theory?
These kinds of models are inherently subjective, so trying to be as
"non-subjective as possible" is not very productive.
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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The Netherlands
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