Sampling Bias in Climate–Conflict Research

Apr 26, 2018 | Courtland Adams, Tobias Ide, Jon Barnett, Adrien Detges
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Critics have argued that the evidence of an association between climate change and conflict is flawed because the research relies on a dependent variable sampling strategy.Similarly, it has been hypothesized that convenience of access biases the sample of cases studied (the ‘streetlight effect’).This also gives rise to claims that the climate-conflict literature stigmatizes some places as being more ‘naturally’ violent.