The reason I rely on political science research is because politics, in my experience, is thick with the allow me to drop a single, disturbing data point approach to analysis. Skilled writers can make anything sound convincing in 24 column inches — particularly when theyre writing to an audience that wants to be convinced. Political science has its problems, but the discipline is more than capable of weeding out this kind of nonsense. It forces a much higher evidentiary standard than, say, op-ed pages, where factlike recollections, in Jonathan Chaits wonderful phrase, are often enough.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 01:19:48 +0000
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