Modeling Everything, Public Plan Edition is James Kwak talking about Nate Silver’s analysis of campaign contributions and the public health plan option and about Brendan Nyhan's counter-argument.
"So here we have: on the one hand, a quick-and-dirty model on this specific question by a guy without a Ph.D. in anything (I think), which correctly picks the positions of 87 out of 99 senators (but it’s possible that the model would have done just as well without campaign contributions); on the other hand, a guy with a Ph.D. in political science and a research fellowship in health policy at a very good university, citing a paper by three MIT professors that’s more or less on the same general topic, arguing that campaign contributions don’t affect policy."
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