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On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 02:32:59 -0400 Joseph Catron <[email protected]> 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 ____________________________________________________________ Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210 ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
