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echo: pol_inc
to: Earl Croasmun
from: Jeff Binkley
date: 2010-11-06 19:05:00
subject: RE: Forbes

EC>~> Indeed.  He does pull stats and he does analyze them but his
EC>~> conclusions  are often very incorrect because he cherry picks a
EC>~> data set and doesn't  tie it back to the real world, the bigger
EC>~> picture or underlying events  which caused the stats.  I could see
EC>~> a fleet of auto carrier trucks  rolling down the street full of
EC>~> green Ford cars.  I could then draw a  conclusion that most of the
EC>~> new cars being made are green Fords.  That  is how he does
EC>~> statistical analysis (and I am being generous).

EC>When someone starts out with no facts, decides what they wish were
EC>true, looks for facts or pseudo-facts that support that conclusion,
EC>and ignores facts that deny that conclusion, they wind up feeling
EC>very comfortable that they are right.  But it doesn't make them
EC>right.  It just makes them cut off from the world.

The left lives by the third person gospel rule.  Facts aren't really of 
much importance.


Jeff

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