Some sanity in the continuing Red/Blue State wars
I haven’t posted many of the correlations of Red States/Blue States and
name the social phenomenon you want. Like the Red State/Slave
States, and so on.
Dan Drezner adds a tiny bit of sanity to this:
As
reluctant as I am to wade in on this — because all these comparisons
demonstrate are potentially spurious correlations — it’s worth
pointing out that there are metrics on which the Red states look much
nicer than the Blue states. Take, for example, generosity.
He then cites a report that the Blue States are all below the median in giving. Go look.
Correlation is not causation, people! Hire a social scientist! We can help!
12 November 2004 at 1:47 pm.
“Hire a social scientist! We can help!”
Shameless. Absolutely shameless. ;c)
But I agree … please, please hire social scientists!!! *smile*