Junk Econometrics [was School vouchers]

[William S. Lear]

On Wednesday, March 17, 1999 at 22:00:22 (-0800) Max Sawicky writes:
>>
>> Chubb & Moe's proposal to privatize schools is based upon their
>> assertion that democracy (they assume it exists locally but perhaps
>> they haven't visited Orblando) promotes bureaucracy and market promotes
>> autonomy...their polemic wrapped in numbers is a class example of
>> using stats in the service of ideology...Michael Hoover
>
>Actually there's much worse you could say about it -- that it used junk
>econometrics, even by the profession's standards.

Max, could you give us a simple example of junk econometrics?

Bill