WS: . . . You also dismiss my argument that you may not have sufficient empirical evidence to sort out effects of different variables by simply calling it "babble." Well, my friend, if you ran a multiple regression with twelve variables plus interaction effects and six cases - you would be laughed out of the stage. What makes you think that a case-based approach is any different, from a methodological point of view. . . . >> Tho I agree JB has been a little too big for his britches, I wonder what the above means for historical analysis. More often than not there are not sufficient cases to use statistical tests of hypotheses; or the question is too broad to admit of analysis via a data set. So where does that leave historians, both economic and otherwise? mbs
