Okay, sometimes you miss a great article and feel really stupid when you do find it. In this case the author is Kaiser Fung and he provides a fantastic example of how modeling decisions can completely undermine a research article's conclusions. In this case the authors manage to completely reverse conventional wisdom with their analysis.
The only thing I disagreed with Kaiser on was using income as a proxy for the value of one additional year of life. I worry that could end up in bad places if we were not careful.
Definitely worth a complete read.
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