It is popular for Republicans to scoff at income redistribution, by which they mean moving money from the upper income to the middle and lower income. There has been massive redistribution of income in the U. S. since Reagan was president, but it is in the other direction: from working class and middle class to [...]
Gallup Polls for presidential approval ratings show the states arrayed from top to bottom, half above average, half below. One can assume a lot of noise in the data causing me to wonder if the top state, Hawaii at 65.9% is really any different than state ranked 10th, Illinois at 53.4%
It is common to write equations for models as follows: bX + bY + XY = Some value. The factor X has some influence as does the factor Y. There is also the interaction effect which is a measure of the effect X has on Y and the effect Y has on X. This concept [...]
