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Wow, the author was just recently fired, > On May 20, the progressive public policy organization, Demos, fired Matt Bruenig, a popular writer who covered pover
by studentrob 10y ago
Wow, the author was just recently fired,
> On May 20, the progressive public policy organization, Demos, fired Matt Bruenig, a popular writer who covered poverty and inequality. [1]
Best of luck to him and hope he finds another position.
This article, though, is pseudoscience. It is just statistics slapped together with a desired conclusion drawn at the end.
Measuring the causes and effects of societal issues over the span of 25 years should be done by sociology PhDs, not political bloggers.
[1] http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/05/25/bruenig-firing-civility-tool-control-political-dissent http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/05/25/bruenig-firing-...
- tim333 10y agoI'm not sure you can even measure the causes and effects of societal issues over the span of 25 years by looking at statistics. I mean you can see stuff change and form hypotheses but it's hard to determine very much that way.
- randomdata 10y ago> It is just statistics slapped together with a desired conclusion drawn at the end. Funnily enough, the same way we concluded that education does fix poverty in the first place.
- lintiness 10y agowe concluded education fixes poverty because it was politically obvious and popular -- still is.