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Wait, candidates pay for information on their opponents? No. Freaking. Way. :rolleyes:
Not to people who get their "news" from Fox. They have continued talking about Hillary non-stop even though, for most of us, Clinton wasn't on...
The mechanism is certainly interesting here. Maybe in addition to any bias experienced (consciously or subconsciously) by the DA and/or judge,...
That same attorney will be assigned (presumably) to many cases within that jurisdiction. That's part of what makes random assignment of the...
Said by someone who doesn't understand that random assignment is the single best possible way to control for the variable. It is called "omitted...
Someone doesn't understand random assignment. Randomly assigning people to a treatment (or control) means you don't have to control for a wide...
Random assignment of attorneys removes attorney quality as a confounding variable.
I'm not suggesting any such thing. I'm telling you that the fact that finding racial effects among the population which gets randomly assigned an...
Even if private attorneys have wide variation, public defenders are randomly assigned and those two groups experienced similar outcomes.
This is a safe assumption. On average, the client of a private attorney could be different from the client of a public defender. Thus,...
No, not "impossible" at all. But, I suppose you'll continue to lean on "nuh-uhhhh" since you don't actually understand the analysis.
Especially since virtually nobody believes in this silly straw man at all. Nobody is claiming racism "is the cause for all of life's problems,"...
No, it wouldn't, given that the vast majority of the variation regarding attorneys was captured when they controlled for public versus private...
Factors that were explicitly controlled for in the study.
Well, other than the fact that the study explicitly controls for the exact issue you mention. Absolutely, but first and minor offenses are where...
If bobby actually shows up and tries to say that the study doesn't take into account background, previous criminal record, or other factors, here...
No, I'm suggesting that you are engaging in biased partisanship by positing a conspiracy without so much as a sniff of evidence.
Of course. Anyone who disparages Democrats in general or Obama specifically is obviously telling the whole truth. If they are talking bad about...
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At least not since Obama left office.
