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 m
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
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
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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.
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> Prof. Bryan Caplan
I'd guess a positiv
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.
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Prof. Bryan Caplan
Department of Economics George Mason University
http://www.bcaplan.com
