@Glen_b Thanks for pointing that out. It's quite effective. I'm thinking of adopting it.

I wonder: does that tagging methodology work here in chat?

Alas, only partially: the wiki excerpt isn't presented when you hover the mouse. You do get the hyperlink, though.

@Scortchi May I ask which answer in the paradox thread are you meaning to award?

Does this paper sound familiar:

I once read a paper in the applied political science literature that showed that just adding more variables to a multiple regression model did not necessarily get you 'closer' to causality.

I can't seem to find it now, and I don't remember the author's name, the title, or the journal. I do remember that it was applied methodological advice for political scientists. I'm pretty sure it would be >2000; it wasn't that old.

@gung I guess there is a greater chance for getting answer if you make a question of it.

That's a reasonable point, @Tim. I've actually found a couple good references now, but I still wonder about this particular paper.

@gung Applied political science ... maybe someone like Jackman or even Gelman? It sounds like the sort of thing Gelman could say. I'd be interested to see it if it turns up.

I am a bit surprised to see that this bountied Q stats.stackexchange.com/questions/315979 does not have a decent answer. Looks like a pretty straightforward bur reasonable question of general interest. @Glen_b maybe?

@amoeba Did you link to the right question? There's no bounty on that one and it has a good, accepted answer

Oops. No idea how it happened. That's the one I meant: stats.stackexchange.com/questions/315979

(Ah, I see that the last digit in the url got cut off somehow)

@amoeba Yeah, I saw that when it first posted. I could try to post an answer when my present period of heavy-workload is out of the way - a few more days at most, I hope - but I'd have thought gung (or any of a number of other highly accomplished answerers) would be better at that one than me.

The bounty is not of interest to me -- in recent years I actually avoid bountied questions, hoping that others will be moved to post a good answer by the bounties and get the reputation; generally I don't want to get in the way of that positive effect of bounties by answering a question under bounty and risking getting the bounty over someone who might have posted at least as good an answer as I would if I had not.

I do sometimes answer after the period though if I think there's anything useful to add.