Florencia Torche's 2014 annual review has to lift a lot of weight, indeed.

I think that's where I'm also getting, slowly. Once again, methods have strongly affected theory, it's remarkable how ideas of "interaction" have muddied the waters of how two (or more) things together lead to an outcome. At least in the literatures I engage with (and very much in my thinking 😬).

That must be the way, I guess.

I'm thinking about this a lot these days (and for many years on and off) as I'm interested in policy interactions ("complementarities" as some might call it). But it seems to get more hopeless with every step down the rabbit hole. Otoh I wonder if it's just as ignorant to keep to main effects.

That's the point of VanderWeele 2009, right? Coming at this from a "support factors" perspective, would you agree that looking at effect modification cannot yield causal understanding of the role of the modifier?

As always, it comes back to the question: who's got the power?

Although this one is about missing interactions with the moderator, not the treatment. Where will it end?

But what other way forward is there if you are thinking (as I do) that this is how the world actually works (think Cartwright's "support factors")?

And it's interactions with the treatment not with the moderator, if I understand correctly.

Looks like authors based outside the US think that they need to provide a replication package to get into ASR - and they’re mistaken.

Vielleicht so: Papier über Musik schreiben. Kombiniere, kombiniere.

Based on that you might enjoy #26 and #38.

Ich drück die Daumen.

I take these from the respective album's page on rateyourmusic.com. That reliefs me of feeling silly for calling anything I like 'avant-garde'.

We'll never know but if it calms you just imagine it siting firmly on top of Merton's 41st chair.

Siehe letzter Satz in Bezug auf Typ 1...

Merci und Prosit!