J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:
> Well, my quick off-the-cuff international
>regression suggests that this generalization
>of Jencks's is not true, even if it might be true
>within some countries. Thus, the US has
>a lower life expectancy than Japan and the
>European social democracies that are at
>similar levels of per capita income. But, this
>might not prove to be statistically significant,
>even if Auntie Deirdre says not to worry.
Whatever you think about Jencks, he's extremely careful with his
numbers. I'm told that he approaches every research question with no
preconceptions - he lets his regressions do the talking. Which is
another way of saying that he's rather apolitical, though his bias is
quasi-Fabian aristo-liberal.
Doug
