Just another day at the sausage factory . . . It’s just funny how regression discontinuity analyses routinely produce these ridiculous graphs and the authors and journals don’t even seem to notice.

Ethan Steinberg sends in these delightful regression discontinuity graphs: He reports that the graphs come from a study from the University of Pennsylvania trying to estimate the effect of a care management intervention for high risk patients. I’m skeptical for … Continue reading → …