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Originally Posted by photon
I look forward to your rebuttal paper then.
Seriously, the paper is pretty simple (probably too simple).. there are honest criticisms of the paper, but cherry picking facts isn't one of them.
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I guess my first problem with this study is that he does not have a control group. The study fasley isolates religion as the only variable that is different between the countries he is comparing.
Secondly the author keeps reffering to a correlation but gives no R scores to back up the statements of strong corelation.
I only briefly purused the study so it could be in there. But to me it seems like the author made a underlying assumption that all modern democracy's are equal except for their degree of faith. This assumption is incorrect and therefore the conclusions of the study are suspect.