On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 02:32:59 -0400 Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com>
writes:
> "Several academic studies have found that there is a link between
> education
> levels and civic behavior. But a new study from the Federal Reserve
> Bank of
> New York
> <http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr450.pdf> has
> concluded that how much economics people study can influence their
> political
> activity and how they spend their spare time."
>
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/does-studying-economics-make
-you-more-republican
>
>
Me thinks that the staff at the NY Times needs to learn the difference between correlations and causality. An intro statistics course might help them.
Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant
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