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Rob Ford
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Not sure “sample size of 22 apparently cherry picked off Wikipedia by a media outlet with a clear ideological agenda” meets my usual definition of “rigorous study”.
Remember kids, just because it has a p value and a pretty graph, doesn’t mean it’s “rigorous”. Data collection methods matter.
Quillette claimed their heavy coverage of the “Sokal squared” hoax was about standards in science not ideology. Their publication of this nonsense, which wld fail any UG quant methods course, rather calls that into question. Seems there’s a lower standard for “science” they like
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What's missing IMO from the analysis, and also renders the China comparison misleading, is any reference to nations or national sovereignty. The policies of any left party operate *within* nations not *between* nations. Immigration is a challenge to that.
Jonathan, being an economist, tends to simply ignore or assume away national attachments, and other forms of identity attachments, which are seldom taken seriously by those in his discipline. It is one of their major errors.
No welfare or redistribution scheme on the scale of modern welfare states has ever existed except within nation-states. There is a reason for that. People are willing to redistribution within the national ingroup they identify with. Far less willing to redistribute outside it.
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One paradoxical aspect of the Brexit riddle is that the higher the perceived No Deal risk becomes now, the less likely it may be:
1. Rising fear of No Deal produces majority for steps to avert it (e.g. Cooper amendment)
2. Rising fear No Deal of it produces Lab votes for Deal
Given this. I don't think it harms May's chances of getting a deal that well briefed and widely respected lobby types such as @Peston and @paulwaugh are now writing long discussions of PM either welcoming or being forced to accept no deal.
@Peston @paulwaugh If you're locked in a game of chicken, then reliable reports that convince your opponent that you are willing to crash the car make it more likely that they'll crack and swerve first.
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Rob Ford
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Today's random survey fact: When asked what was the most important issue facing the country, 11 out of 3,075 respondents to the 2010 British Election Study named "Britain's relations with Europe". 0.4% of the total sample.
This is slightly less than the number of people who said "there are no important issues".
Given that a lot of people are retweeting this I should make clear that I'm not putting any particular interpretation on this beyond highlighting how dramatically the political agenda has changed in less than a decade.
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