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2  Which Causal Inference? – Causal Inference<br/>*The Remix*

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I graduated in 1999 from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville with an English major and the serious goal of becoming a professional poet. But, while I had been successful writing poetry in college, I quickly realized that the road to success beyond that point was probably not a realistic one to take. I was newly married with a baby on the way and working as a qualitative research analyst doing market research, and slowly I stopped writing poetry altogether.1 My job as a qualitative research analyst was wonderful and eye opening in part because it was my first exposure to doing anything seriously empirical. My job required me to do “grounded theory”—a kind of inductive approach to generating explanations of human behavior based on observations I made running focus groups and conducting in-depth interviews, as well as using other ethnographic methods. I approached each project as an opportunity to understand why people did the things they did (even if what they did was buy detergent

My Story I graduated in 1999 from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville with an English major and the serious goal of becoming a professional poet. But, while I had been successful writing poetry in college, I quickly realized that the road to success beyond that point was probably not a realistic one to take. I was newly married with a baby on the way and working as a qualitative research analyst doing market research, and slowly I stopped writing poetry altogether.1 My job as a qualitative research analyst was wonderful and eye opening in part because it was my first exposure to doing…

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