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Actually, left and right leaning economists are surprisingly unbiased. See the essay (based on data) "Economists Are Almost Inhumanly Impartial". It's as if the

• 001sky 12y ago
  scientific method? economists? LOL
• drdeca 12y ago
  I'm not sure what the units are there in that graph, but when trying to scale the vertical and horizontal of the graph to have 1 unit vs 1 unit, it seems to have a larger looking slope to me. Still smaller than one though. I may have made mistakes in resizing it though.
  • yummyfajitas 12y ago
    The X and Y axes do not have the same units, so scaling them this way is meaningless. The key point is that while there line has slope, the spread of the data is much larger. I.e., the ideology of the study's author gives you very little information about the numerical values in the study.
• mathattack 12y ago
  Another source that disagrees... http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/economists-arent-as-nonpartisan-as-we-think/ http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/economists-arent-as-nonp... It is very hard to not introduce bias into social sciences. This is also why psychology and software engineering studies are hard to trust. It is more pervasive in economics when there are rewards to be linked to a given worldview. (You can make a lot of side money as an expert witness if you have written a lot of papers either solidly pro or against anti-trust legislation)
  • arjie 12y ago
    The source you're linking is mentioned in the first 3 words of the article he linked. The MotherJones.com article is a direct response to the article you linked.