Month: December 2006
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Letter to the Editor: The Constitution Allows Representatives to Swear in On Any Book They Choose
This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: In response to Minnesota Rep.-elect Keith Ellison’s intention to swear his oath of office on the Koran, Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode recently wrote his constituents that to “preserve the values and beliefs…
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Letter to the Editor: Sampling Bias Distorts Race Relations Survey
This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: How ironic that an opinion survey on race relations would include the blatant sampling bias inherent in phone interviews. Families that are more financially well off own more phones per person, if…