Tuesday, June 29, 2010

A very strong association between percent white and trust

As a follow-up to the last post, I calculated across the nine General Social Survey regional divisions the correlation for the past decade between trusting people in general and the percent of the population that is white. It is .82--a very strong link.
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  1. Jim Bowery11:06 PM

    Correlation doesn't imply causation. Ecological correlations are invalid. Nya nya nya.... etc...

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