[governance] NY article expresses surprise at US walkout in Dubai

[michael gurstein]

Norbert, I think it all depends on how you define "democracy"... given the
right set of definitions I/you/anyone could find a correlation between
anything and anything... This doesn't mean that these types of exercises
aren't useful, some are and some aren't, but it does mean that if you want
to understand what is going on you have to move quite a bit upstream from
the kind of information that we have been presented with in these charts.

M

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Subject: Re: [governance] NY article expresses surprise at US walkout in
Dubai

McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> > As for matching democracy indices, these are spins being put that 
> > are unnecessary
> 
> Unnecessary does not mean "not revealing".

I would suggest that a correlation (as certainly seems to be present in this
case) does not in itself reveal anything besides a *question* of what causes
the correlation.

If someone were to seriously investigate this question, I would be very
interested in reading the resulting paper.

Greetings,
Norbert



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