Sunday, February 27, 2005

Bushbabies

I have no idea what it means, but I found this paragraph intruiging.

In the wake of the 2004 presidential election, conservative commentator Steve Sailer, in a cover story in the December 20, 2004 edition of The American Conservative, discovered a very strong correlation between a state's white fertility rate and its support for Bush in that election. (He included the District of Columbia in his analysis because it has electoral votes.) The state with the highest white fertility, Utah (2.45 children per woman of childbearing age), had the highest vote for Bush (71%). The District of Columbia, with both an overwhelmingly African-American population and the lowest white fertility of any jurisdiction in the country (1.11), gave only 9% of its vote to Bush. More tellingly, when each state's Bush share was plotted against its white fertility rate, the correlation coefficient for a straight line was 0.86. In the social sciences, a correlation coefficient of 0.6 is considered "high".

From Wikipedia

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