The lesson from this week’s election is to ignore pontificating from highly paid pundits. Put your faith in the numbers
Van Reenen, John
(2012)
The lesson from this week’s election is to ignore pontificating from highly paid pundits. Put your faith in the numbers
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John van Reenen finds great cause for optimism in President Obama having won a second term. He argues that this election was also a vindication for quantitative social science, as the eventual results confirmed what mathematical models had predicted contrary to the instincts of pundits.
| Item Type | Online resource |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2012 The Author |
| Departments |
Economics Centre for Economic Performance |
| Date Deposited | 04 Apr 2013 14:50 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/49572 |
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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9153-2907