Let’s pretend to be scientists.
We have a hypothesis: That Universal Basic Income would improve people’s lives and most especially the lives of people living on the lower end of the socio-economic spectrum.
We choose some metrics like income levels of the bottom quintile and rates of substance abuse to use as proxies for more general outcomes. Then we want to run an experiment. We look for a sample to use as white mice. Because our hypothesis is that Universal Basic Income most helps to those on the lower end of the spectrum, we look for a sample that is […]
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