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

Submitted by Bill Peterson

Submitted by Jeanne Aolbert

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 ==More on Kansas==
-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.technologyreview.com/view/527506/how-statisticians-found-air-france-flight-447-two-years-after-it-crashed-into-atlantic/ How statisticians found Air France Flight 447 two years after it crashed into Atlantic]<br>
+by , ''MIT Technology Review'', 27 May 2014
-<center>[[File:Porn2012vote.png|400px]]</center>
+Submitted by Jeanne Aolbert
-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
-<blockquote>
-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>