Cara Santamaria

You know what we call that in most statistics, but definitely when we're doing social sciences statistics?

What?

We call it convergent validity.

So when you're looking at construct validity, you want to know if a construct, like something you're measuring, is actually a valid measure of that thing.

You look at two different ways, two different measures that are trying to yield similar results.

Yeah.

And when they give you wildly different results, you're like, huh, maybe we don't actually know how to measure this thing.

Mm-hmm.

We need to get better at that.

People believed in Pizzagate.

People believed in QAnon.

It has worse outcomes for, like, humanity.

Sure, I believe it.

Yeah.

What other industries do you see that, especially those that have been deeply politicized, do you see that systematically happening where the researchers or the interested parties say, oh, we found an error.

Ooh, thanks for pointing that out.

Right, exactly, Cara.

We want to do better.

Yes, please.

I want to know if I'm doing enough.