At 10:43 PM 2/7/2003 -0600 Dan Minette wrote:
>I just found a sheet I Xeroxed at Texas A&M that contained data from the
>first part of the century. I forgot I had it, sorry. So, I went back to
>1920. The results are a bit better for the Republicans: their mean annual
>increase in GDP is now 2.1% vs 4.9% for the Democrats. BTW, the Roaring
>20s (20-29) growth averaged about 4.25%, less than the average for the
>Democrats since 1920. Do I need to go back to '00? Also, before 1929, the
>percentages were for GNP, not GDP..but I don't think that's enough to
>drastically change the results for the '20s.
No, you do not have to go back to 1900 as as near as I can tell, you don't
have a model as the basis for running this regression. Right now, it
seems to me that you are simply throwing data against a wall and hoping
that it sticks - which is bad science, as this can produce very misleading
results.
JDG
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