Comments on: No economics education? Don’t Vote! http://mindyourowndamnbusinesspolitics.com/wordpress/2010/06/14/no-economics-education-dont-vote/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=no-economics-education-dont-vote Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:23:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: General OneFile Basic Search | Sports Magazine Articles http://mindyourowndamnbusinesspolitics.com/wordpress/2010/06/14/no-economics-education-dont-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-4792 General OneFile Basic Search | Sports Magazine Articles Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:13:51 +0000 http://mindyourowndamnbusinesspolitics.com/wordpress/?p=2832#comment-4792 [...] No economics education? Don't Vote! | Mind Your Own Damn Business … [...] [...] No economics education? Don't Vote! | Mind Your Own Damn Business … [...]

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]]> By: Lynn http://mindyourowndamnbusinesspolitics.com/wordpress/2010/06/14/no-economics-education-dont-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-4772 Lynn Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:40:34 +0000 http://mindyourowndamnbusinesspolitics.com/wordpress/?p=2832#comment-4772 I'm sure there is a lack of knowledge of economic principles that our leaders do more to exploit than to fix, but this "test" is more a poll of political opinion than economics. If you wanted to test knowledge, you could certainly do so without tapping into "political sensibilities" as with a majority of the items. Were participants told this was a test of knowledge of economic principles or of opinion? How do we evaluate the 7.5% difference between liberals and conservatives without knowing the variability among the groups and the distributions? I guess maybe you should have to know something about test construction to be allowed to write a blog... I’m sure there is a lack of knowledge of economic principles that our leaders do more to exploit than to fix, but this “test” is more a poll of political opinion than economics. If you wanted to test knowledge, you could certainly do so without tapping into “political sensibilities” as with a majority of the items. Were participants told this was a test of knowledge of economic principles or of opinion? How do we evaluate the 7.5% difference between liberals and conservatives without knowing the variability among the groups and the distributions?

I guess maybe you should have to know something about test construction to be allowed to write a blog…

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