On 19-Mar-10 09:23:49, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Colleagues,
> there were some emails about a year ago about the Spirit Level.
> Could someone forward them to me as I deleted them. A friend
> of mine is interested in the area. It was something about the
> graphs. They are very dubious aren't they, no scales on the axes
> and all simple linear regressions. Perhaps there were other multiple
> regressions in the book or appendix. He hasn't checked that yet,
>
> With thanks
> David Drew
This was a very long thread, which split.
Start at the RadStats Archives at
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=radstats
and click on "March '09". Then click on "Date" to order them
by date. The discussion was opened by Ray Thomas on 16 March:
WHY MORE EQUAL SOCIETIES ALMOST ALWAYS DO BETTER
Ray Thomas Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:34:00 -0000
Subsequent postings with the same subject pursue the issues.
The role of "The Spirit Level" was picked up by me (pursuing
links) and posted on 17 March:
Re: WHY MORE EQUAL SOCIETIES ALMOST ALWAYS DO BETTER
Ted Harding Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:20:23 -0000
Then Diana Kornbrot posted a personal email from Kate Pickett
about the methodology on 22 March:
Equality figures
kornbrot Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:11:20 +0000
and this became a derivative thread (so follow "Equality figures"
as well).
Hoping this helps,
Ted.
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