Hi all!  Not a thread that I wanted to get pulled into, but I thought there
were a few items from Wirt that needed to be addressed.

Wirt wrote:

> And if you were to plot divorce rates vs. the percentage of the population
> that voted for GW Bush, I'm sure that you will almost certainly get the
same
> level of correlation. Divorce rates simply go up as a family is
increasingly
> stressed for money and can see little way out of its predictament. These
same
> people often have a tendency to seek simpler, more child-like explanations
as
> well, in both their politics and in their religion.

You should never assume what the correlation would be.  Run the numbers and
you could be surprised.  We did an interesting experiment in college, where
we tracked the correlation of which party was elected President to which
conference won the Super Bowl.  There was a strong correlation between the
two, but I still don't have a reason why.  Sometimes, statistics are just
that, statistics.

The item that really surprised me was the logic that Christians and people
who voted for Bush are people who seek simpler, more childlike explanations.
I didn't expect to see Wirt make such broad accusations.  Does that mean
that Republicans and Christians are simple, child-like thinking people?  Or
did they become Republican and Christian because of it?

Wirt, if I misinterpreted what you said, please correct me.

Regards,

Ron

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