• deHaga@feddit.uk
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    8 days ago

    Using a synthetic control approach, the researchers compare each UK area’s actual economic path with a data-driven counterfactual: how that area might have evolved had Brexit not happened.

    Synthetic counter factuals. Bullshit

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      8 days ago

      Comparing growth rates and showing UK fell behind is perfectly valid and you’re still ignoring the imposed costs and proof of harmed industries

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        8 days ago

        It would be perfectly valid if they used the actual data and not synthetic counter factuals.

        And it’s the net that matters, dirty goods trade has been replaced with clean services.