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I've read that some people feel that quantile regression results aren't useful because the individuals within the same quantile of the dependent variable aren't the same across different independent variable values? This implies that the coefficient in quantile regression isn't useful in understanding a causal effect. Am I interpreting that correctly?

I am a little bit confused by this because can't the same be said about OLS? The individuals at a particular value of the independent variable aren't the same as at another value of the independent variable.

Would it be a waste to read Speak, Memory without reading Nabokov's other works? I greatly enjoy memoirs and I read somewhere that Nabokov was a great memoirist. He seems like an interesting person and I have read some of his short stories but no major works. Would it still be worthwhile to read Speak, Memory?