{"id":968,"date":"2004-07-14T05:37:13","date_gmt":"2004-07-14T13:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/07\/14\/another-vote\/"},"modified":"2004-07-14T05:37:13","modified_gmt":"2004-07-14T13:37:13","slug":"another-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"Another Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As far as I am aware, <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/archives\/archive_2004_07_07.shtml#1089755610\">Prof. Eugene Volokh<\/a> did not participate in Alas A Blog&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/amptoons.poliblog.com\/cgi-bin\/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=879\">&#8220;Poll: Cause and Effect&#8221;<\/a>. If he did not, his opinion would not have been reflected in our <a href=\"http:\/\/amptoons.poliblog.com\/blog\/000912.html\">results.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I am indulgent, I will accept his late vote.  It is clear he does not believe correlation equals causation.<sup>1<\/sup>  This means my position that <i>Same Sex Marriage can cause changes in the the non-marital birth ratio and these can easily be seen in the data.<\/i> now has only 1 vote out of 9 cast. (It previously had 1 vote out of 8 cast.) <sigh><\/p>\n<p>My only consolation is that this outcome suggests people also don&#8217;t believe Dr. Kurtz.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n=== End Notes.<br \/>\n[1] In a previous article, I noted they seem to be teaching correlation does not equal causation at U of Chicago.  Now, it seems they may be teaching this corrosive idea at UCLA.  What is <i>happening<\/i> at our institutions of higher learning?<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=order-liquid-floxin\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as I am aware, Prof. Eugene Volokh did not participate in Alas A Blog&#8217;s &#8220;Poll: Cause and Effect&#8221;. If he did not, his opinion would not have been reflected in our results. As I am indulgent, I will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=968\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ssm-the-scandinavian-question"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}