A related publication has been recently published in the APSR (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000429). Although that study has a slightly different focus (on the role of measurement uncertainty), the authors should transparently discuss this aspect to rule out any doubts that a motivation would have been to slice one research project into minimally publishable units. Perhaps the fact that some of the empirical evidence has already been presented elsewhere gave rise to the manuscript’s framing where I perceive a conflict between the manuscript ambition and the manuscript’s content.
[x] Distinguish the purpose of this paper from the APSR piece
The APSR piece focused on method, while the current paper goes one further step to dig into the data generation process;
The two pieces use the same case but on different topics, that is, they can't be written in the same paper.
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