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==More on Kansas==
==More on Kansas==
The following web site reversed the axes and its regression line is correct:
On [http://www.mischiefsoffaction.com/2014/04/are-democrats-pervs-some-problems-with.html this web site] we find a view with the axes reversed
 
http://www.mischiefsoffaction.com/2014/04/are-democrats-pervs-some-problems-with.html
 
so we obtain the following graph


<center>[[File:Porn2012vote.png|400px]]</center>
<center>[[File:Porn2012vote.png|400px]]</center>

Revision as of 14:06, 10 June 2014

Reproducibility

When studies are wrong: A coda
by George Johnson, New York Times, 7 March 2014


Submitted by Bill Peterson

More on Kansas

On this web site we find a view with the axes reversed

Porn2012vote.png

This "reverse causality" has porn viewing "causing" the Obama vote whereas the original has Obama vote "causing" porn viewing. Instead of the loaded term, "causing," this web site tongue-in-cheek says

Porn pageviews explain 16 percent of the variance in state level presidential vote shares. Each per capita pageview is associated with a two-tenths of a percentage point increase in a state's Democratic vote share, and this is statistically significant at the p≤.01 level. </blockquote?