October 10, 2006

Fun with Statistics!

From the comments section on Greg Mankiw's blog, a true believer attempts to refute Robert D. Putnam's research that ethnic diversity correlates with lower levels of trust:


This paper claims that the correlation between trust and homogeneity disappears once you control for democracy, corruption and equal protection.


What's next? Perhaps:


This paper claims that the correlation between mortality and bubonic plague disappears once you control for sudden death.


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