Researches and control

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Synthetic control is super politically convenient, and one of the reasons why the political class puts a lot of money into "think tank" research (and vice versa) to study things in just such a particular way as to validate the underlying political agenda. Start with the right input assumptions, construct just the right questions to ask, and you can come up with any research result you want. With enough strategy and intentional framing of questions and research parameters, you can build your own reality from scratch, especially in the social sciences