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Method of Natural Experiments
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A research approach that compares naturally occurring situations differing in a key variable to infer causation when controlled experiments are impossible.
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What Makes Great Leaders & How to Live an Extraordinary Life | Dr. Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond · Oct 19, 2026
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Used for: Assessing whether individual leaders made a difference in history
vs: Preferred over the traditional biographical method, where different historian...
"One's limited by the facts, but different people come to different conclusions with the same facts. That's why my book uses a different method, the method of natural experiments."
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