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Causal inferences in non‐experimental research: a reply to Gomme
Author(s) -
LINDEN RICK,
FILLMORE CATHY
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
canadian review of sociology/revue canadienne de sociologie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.414
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1755-618X
pISSN - 1755-6171
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-618x.1985.tb00383.x
Subject(s) - criticism , causal inference , epistemology , causal theory of reference , psychology , philosophy , law , political science , econometrics , mathematics
In his ‘Comment’ Gomme raises two objections: first, that the Simon‐Blalock procedure for testing causal ordering is meaningless and misleading; second, that he has developed a model which better fits the data than the model presented in our paper. In response, we shall deal with each criticism separately