The lesson from yesterday’s election is to ignore pontificating from highly paid pundits. Put your faith in the numbers

Van Reenen, John ORCID: 0000-0001-9153-2907 (2012) The lesson from yesterday’s election is to ignore pontificating from highly paid pundits. Put your faith in the numbers. British Politics and Policy at LSE (07 Nov 2012). Website.

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John Van Reenen finds great cause for optimism in President Obama having won a second term. He argues that this election was also a vindication for quantitative social science, as the eventual results confirmed what mathematical models had predicted contrary to the instincts of pundits.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/
Additional Information:	© 2012 The Author
Divisions:	Economics Centre for Economic Performance
Subjects:	J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JK Political institutions (United States)
Date Deposited:	12 Feb 2013 08:24
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 18:35
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/48538

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