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James_Miller comments on [Retracted] Simpson's paradox strikes again: there is no great stagnation? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: James_Miller 30 July 2012 11:43:21PM 3 points [-]

NO!

I'm not saying that the Blues hate the truth. I'm saying that on one small set of issues the Blues have beliefs independent of the truth.

Politics will pretty much always be more complicated than math

Yes, but in this situation, a situation over which I have a huge amount of local knowledge, politics is the simpler answer.

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