Posted on 08/03/2018 5:13:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
- A Columbia University sociologist recently published a study showing that much of the academic research into President Trump’s voters is marred by prejudicial designs, distorted data, and outright misrepresentations.
- Musa al-Gharbi points out, for instance, that one data set used in a Washington Post article to accuse Trump voters of racist motivations actually shows that Trump voters were less racist than those who voted for Mitt Romney.
A new study finds that much of the research conducted on President Trump’s voters is marred by prejudicial designs, distorted data, and outright misrepresentation of Trump’s words.
Led by Musa al-Gharbi, a Columbia University sociologist, “On Social Research in the Age of Trump” analyzes three case studies of academic research on Trump to illustrate the various ways that academics have misrepresented the president and his voter base to the public.
One example of this phenomena can be seen in the April 2017 Washington Post article “Racism motivated Trump voters more than authoritarianism,” by Thomas Wood, who teaches political science classes at Ohio State University.
While Wood cites survey data to claim that Trump voters were especially motivated by racism, a closer analysis by al-Gharbi reveals that Wood’s arguments about Trump voters can’t be substantiated from the data cited in the article.
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Shhh! This is why the Dems always lose - why tell them?
Shhh! This is why the Dems always lose - why tell them?
What some might call "fake news."
Or lies.
Or climate science.
Columbia will probably make him President of the University.
It all depends on their definition of the word “racist”. To the ‘rats, racism consists of suspicion of Islamists, rejection of open borders, support for the police, etc.
This is fantastic! Nice to see intellectual exploration and data analysis such as this.
Congratulations and thank you Musa al-Gharbi!
Gee, that should have been a short study. I was, however, grueling work and difficult to accept.
Or most current “science” “academia” is pushing.
Well he will always have a spot on the nyt editorial board.
We don’t hate people of color. A lot of us ARE people of color. What we can’t stand is liberal democrats and it has nothing to do with their color.
Of course they were casting Trump supporters as racists; they needed to drive the non-white voters back into the “D” column. It was very clear on Election Night, and the enemedia briefly let its guard down and admitted, that many people who voted for Obama TWICE voted for Trump. It was also very clear after Florida results came in that many HISPANICS voted for Trump.
The leftard SOP
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