Charles Murray

Tom Lehman uswa12 at lorainccc.edu
Thu Feb 4 16:41:51 PST 1999


Dear Brad and Barkley,

One of you Ph.D's should tell Mr. Charlie to, "correlate this!" If you know what I mean.

Your email pal,

Tom L., B.A.

"Rosser Jr, John Barkley" wrote:


> It is also the very carefully considered and
> thought-out view of Arthur Goldberger and Charles Manski
> (leading econometricians for the ignoranti) in their major
> review article in the June, 1995, Journal of Economic
> Literature. Well, they don't actually accuse Murray and
> Herrnstein of outright statistical ignorance. But they
> certainly reveal the numerous errors they engage in.
> Barkley Rosser
> On Thu, 4 Feb 1999 11:58:31 -0800 Brad De Long
> <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>
> > >
> > >hmmmm, could it be that murray isn't intelligent enough to understand
> > >statistical regressions???? maggie coleman mscoleman at aol.com
> >
> > That's Paul Krugman's opinion after one debate with Charles Murray: that
> > Murray literally does not understand what a correlation coefficient is.
> >
> > Brad DeLong
> >
> >
>
> --
> Rosser Jr, John Barkley
> rosserjb at jmu.edu



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