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From: LindyBill7/20/2006 8:15:49 PM
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MRV watch, by Arnold Kling

In Political Economy

Ilya Somin writes

Recent research suggests that even the most sophisticated and highly rational voters may rely on shortcuts that have little relevance to political candidates' likely performance in office. For example, a recent study of elections for the presidency of the American Economics Association shows that the relative physical attractiveness of the rival candidates is a powerful predictor of which candidate prevails in the voting (Hamermesh 2005). The AEA electorate consists of academic economists who are presumably knowledgeable about the functions of the AEA--and presumably more committed to rational, maximizing behavior than is the average voter in ordinary elections. If such voters nonetheless rely on dubious information shortcuts, it is likely that voters in other elections are at least equally likely to do so.
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