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Feb. 15th, 2008 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pearwaldorfI'm a nerd. Data and graphs make me happy. I'm going to indulge in that nerdishness today.
Your world in charts, playing by the other team's delegate rules edition and by god, Americans DO know what socialized medicine is edition. The last link gives me hope that we may get universal healthcare in this country yet.
Multiple regression analysis of voting patterns of Clinton and Obama voters. It's not a bad model, but like all models, it's just a framework and may or may not predict actual behavior.
And this study is why you shouldn't let law professors do data analysis. As any person in the social sciences knows, correlation does not equal causation. Also, has it ever occurred to the researchers that payday loan providers might be there just because of a poor population that also happens to be conservative? Or that state regulations might keep payday lenders out? It might not have anything to do with Christianity. I would argue that Georgia's a pretty Christian state with a lot of poor people, but if you look at that map there's almost no payday lenders in the state. Of course, even scrutinizing these people's own data makes their supposition fall apart. That's pretty fucking pathetic.
Your world in charts, playing by the other team's delegate rules edition and by god, Americans DO know what socialized medicine is edition. The last link gives me hope that we may get universal healthcare in this country yet.
Multiple regression analysis of voting patterns of Clinton and Obama voters. It's not a bad model, but like all models, it's just a framework and may or may not predict actual behavior.
And this study is why you shouldn't let law professors do data analysis. As any person in the social sciences knows, correlation does not equal causation. Also, has it ever occurred to the researchers that payday loan providers might be there just because of a poor population that also happens to be conservative? Or that state regulations might keep payday lenders out? It might not have anything to do with Christianity. I would argue that Georgia's a pretty Christian state with a lot of poor people, but if you look at that map there's almost no payday lenders in the state. Of course, even scrutinizing these people's own data makes their supposition fall apart. That's pretty fucking pathetic.
