Re: guess the correlation
I bet it close to zero. If income and education are correlated in the way that I suspect they are, Kerry's support is high at the tails of the income distribution, which means that it's a U-shaped relationship. Since correlation measures a linear relationship, it's going to be zero. However, this may not be if you don't weight the data by population. Dimitriy V. Masterov Center for Social Program Evaluation 1155 East 60th St. Room 038 Chicago, IL 60637
Re: guess the correlation
My guess is positive because California and New York tend to have a lot of high income people. Around 0.4? Fabio On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Bryan Caplan wrote: > I've calculated the correlation coefficient between per-capita state > income and the percent of the vote Kerry got. Guesses? I'll post the > answer in an hour. > -- > Prof. Bryan Caplan > Department of Economics George Mason University > http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "But we must deplore and, so far as possible, overcome the evils of > habitual newspaper reading. These evils are, chiefly, three: first, > the waste of much time and mental energy in reading unimportant news > and opinions, and premature, untrue, or imperfect accounts of > important matters; second, the awakening of prejudices and the > enkindling of passions through the partisan bias or commercial greed > of newspaper managers; third, the loading of the mind with cheap > literature and the development of an aversion for books and > sustained thought." > >--Delos Wilcox, "The American Newspaper" (1900) >
Re: guess the correlation
Bryan Caplan wrote: I've calculated the correlation coefficient between per-capita state income and the percent of the vote Kerry got. Guesses? Well we already know it's positive: http://ogre.nu/wp/index.php?p=1513 -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
Re: guess the correlation
In a message dated 12/16/04 2:21:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I've calculated the correlation coefficient between per-capita state >income and the percent of the vote Kerry got. Guesses? I'll post the >answer in an hour. >-- > Prof. Bryan Caplan I'd guess a positive coeficient--the higher the state's per capita income, the higher the percentage Kerry won. David Levenstam
guess the correlation
I've calculated the correlation coefficient between per-capita state income and the percent of the vote Kerry got. Guesses? I'll post the answer in an hour. -- Prof. Bryan Caplan Department of Economics George Mason University http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] "But we must deplore and, so far as possible, overcome the evils of habitual newspaper reading. These evils are, chiefly, three: first, the waste of much time and mental energy in reading unimportant news and opinions, and premature, untrue, or imperfect accounts of important matters; second, the awakening of prejudices and the enkindling of passions through the partisan bias or commercial greed of newspaper managers; third, the loading of the mind with cheap literature and the development of an aversion for books and sustained thought." --Delos Wilcox, "The American Newspaper" (1900)
