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Why Is Polling Wrong So Often?
A week or so after an election the NY Times carries an article trying to explain why the polls were wrong, let’s explore: what is a poll? A poll is a “random, stratified sample” of prime voters at a particular time and place. Who are prime voters and how do we know? Ballots are secret,…
Mulgrew v Mamdani and the Office of Collective Bargaining
The Constitution requires the “advice and consent” of the Senate (Article 2, section 2, clause 2), hearings and a vote to confirm probably hundreds of members of the executive branch, from cabinet members to ambassadors and on and on. The Mayor of New York, appoints, or reappoints about three hundred positions, without any approval, the…
“We Exist in a Marketplace of Favors,” The World of Realpolitik
We are a contentious species, we bicker, at times dissemble, and at the same time speak of ethics and morality. In classrooms, twenty-five hundred years later we regal Socrates as a great teacher, and forget he was condemned to death for teaching the youth of Athens to think critically (Socrates needed a union!). We just…
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