{"id":23198,"date":"2026-10-11T13:01:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T13:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23198"},"modified":"2026-10-11T13:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T13:01:09","slug":"how-economists-measure-human-flourishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23198","title":{"rendered":"How Economists Measure Human Flourishing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Statistics and econometrics alone are not science! They are tools that are a part of science. We need to do more than just find correlations, but also understand how things works. We should understand the cause and effect story, including the mechanisms that create the correlations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An economist who has studied traits like executive functioning thinks it&#8217;s too late for Trump to have good executive functioning. He deeply criticized Trump, but also feared a left-wing socialist response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Are Economists Measuring the Wrong Things?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/56GkjzZkh-w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics and econometrics alone are not science! They are tools that are a part of science. We need to do more than just find correlations, but also understand how things works. We should understand the cause and effect story, including the mechanisms that create the correlations. <\/p>\n<p>An economist who has studied traits like executive functioning thinks it&#8217;s too late for Trump to have good executive functioning. He deeply criticized Trump, but also feared a left-wing socialist response. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=56GkjzZkh-w<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[251,221,217,165,811,300,48,170],"class_list":["post-23198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-caused","tag-donald-trump","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-science","tag-statistics","tag-studies","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23199,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23198\/revisions\/23199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}