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Causal Inference for the Brave and True. A light-hearted yet rigorous approach to learning about impact estimation and causality.
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Chapter 4 typo: missing "likely" #280

Closed alxw closed 1 year ago

alxw commented 1 year ago

There is an issue in chapter 4, in the following paragraph:

Looking at those that invest, we probably have the case that . In words, among those that invest, those that manage to do so even without education are more independent of education to achieve high earnings. For this reason, the wage those people have, , is probably higher than the wage the educated group would have if they didn't have education, . A similar reasoning can be applied to those that don't invest, where we also probably have . Those who don't invest even with education probably would have a lower wage, had they not got the education, than those who didn't invest but didn't have an education.

(Please forgive the missing markdown equations above; there are none in the sentence in question though, so it did not appear worth the effort to add them.)

This sentence is missing the word "likely":

In words, among those that invest, those that manage to do so even without education are more independent of education to achieve high earnings.

It should instead read:

In words, among those that invest, those that manage to do so even without education are more likely independent of education to achieve high earnings.

That's still cumbersome at the end, though. It could be much clearer, if we rephrase it:

In words, among those that invest, those that manage to do so even without education are more likely to achieve high earnings, independent of education.