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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (230620)	9/1/2013 1:03:13 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) of 542197

Tell me why the charts, on which the abstract was based, are flawed--if you can. Clearly a waste of time. But let me take one more shot. Note this sentence from that first chart: In the United States marriage drops the probability of child poverty by 82 per cent. A clearly causal statement. Single parenting leads to poverty. To turn it around single parents need to couple up. And since it's a Heritage study, one can assume they are adamant that it be coupling with a person of the opposite sex. That's a classic social science mistake. As others have posted here, it's the elementary mistake of confusing correlation with causation. Whoever put that little graphic up needs to take a class in basic undergraduate methodology. The article is a near perfect illustration of the point we are all making--the Heritage Foundation and more than a few of these right wing think tanks use research to confirm conclusions they've already reached. Serious research simply doesn't work that way. Go read a ton of back copies of the American Sociological Review and the American Journal of Sociology to see what I mean.

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